The French government, led by Minister Sébastien Lecornu, announced the creation of an emergency cyber unit under ANSSI, deployable as soon as an intrusion targets a sensitive system. This announcement follows the hacking of 678,000 taxpayers’ data at the DGFiP and 346 million records at the Education Ministry, amid a surge of leaks since spring. France has still not transposed the European NIS2 directive, whose deadline was October 2024, and allocates only 1% of its digital budget to cybersecurity versus 10% on average in large companies. The country recorded 77 crypto-related kidnappings since January 2026, more than throughout all of 2025.
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