The French National Agency for Information Security Systems identified 64 new data breaches, including five directly involving government ministries or public bodies. The France Travail hack compromised data belonging to more than 60,000 employees and professionals, while 1.6 million records were stolen from the CAF holiday assistance platform. The Agency for Services and Payment also suffered the theft of data from 30,500 users of its trainee payment portal. Other breaches affected the French Office for Biodiversity’s examination registration portal, with more than one thousand people affected, and the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, with around one hundred users. The stolen data, including names, addresses and phone numbers, is then sold on the dark web to support phishing campaigns, extortion and other criminal activities.
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