Tax Hack: What We Know About the Cyberattacks on French Government Agencies
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The large data leak that hit the Directorate General for Public Finance (DGFiP) at the end of June is only the latest in an impressive series of intrusions that have targeted public administrations since the beginning of the year.
TRIBUNE. The hacking of sensitive tax data of nearly seven hundred thousand French at the Directorate General of Public Finance is a grievous accident that must no longer be analysed as a trivial technical malfunction, but as proof of a bureaucratic model unsuitable for the current technological challenges, assures Arnaud Dassier, general delegate of the UDR and entrepreneur in the field of cyber.
Tax hack: What we know about the cyberattacks on French government agencies
French government systems came under attack by hackers who stole information on hundreds of thousands of households and private businesses in June and July, notably from the tax authority. Here's what we know about the latest cyberattacks, and what the government is doing to keep personal information secure.
The tax authorities announced that they had been the victim of a huge theft of data, confirming the claims of cybercriminals published on the "darkweb".
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