Hacking at the DGFiP: tax data of nearly 680,000 people potentially compromised

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The Directorate General for Public Finances (DGFiP) suffered a cyberattack that may have affected the tax data of nearly 680,000 individuals. Additionally, another leak claimed by the same cybercriminal potentially concerns cadastral data of over 2 million people. Investigations are ongoing to determine the precise extent of these breaches. This topic raises significant cybersecurity concerns. What is your opinion on this, and how do you foresee future efforts to strengthen digital security?
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  1. And besides that, the government continues to impose dematerialization on us.

    The next data leak related to the dematerialization of invoices promises to be just as bloody.

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    1. Hello.

      The juicy detail is that the hacking happened at the end of June, the finances stayed silent, and it took the hacker to release a statement in mid-August for the affair to be revealed!

      Financials are efficient!

      Those who were hacked will be notified by the finances, but many people will receive a message telling them their data has been hacked, apologies etc…, to be wary, etc… and if the message comes from another hacker, with an invitation to click on a link, imagine the extent of the damage.

      As duranex so aptly says, the state will continue to push hard to dematerialize everything. A bright future!

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      1. Hi,

        if someone comes to your place by some means or another, but without breaking anything you would notice and takes photos of your adult comic book collection, you won’t notice either, until the day someone comes to tell you, here, I’ve seen photos of your collection on a site, that’s how it happens.

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    2. In a state that wants to force us to go fully digital, it is worrying to see so many data protection vulnerabilities. I no longer trust state sites, because they are not capable of protecting our information, particularly the information they require from us; moreover, their responsiveness is zero, and it is the citizens who pay the price for the failures of "professionals" who are handsomely paid.

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      1. Hello,

        The DGFIP just as little as banks ever invites anyone to click on anything; it sends a raw email or invites the recipient to read a message about them on its site with the usual credentials, but indeed in both cases there are people who compulsively click on malicious links in such emails.

        The issue of information security is broader than that of state structures; even in France almost everyone is affected, including in the private sector (Free, Boulanger, Almerys...); 100% security does not exist, but as far as is reported, the flaws are most of the time crude.

        In the public sector, a weaker risk culture, the burden of the organization, including that of allocating funds to such an action or the renovation of such hardware or software, does of course not help.

        That said, apart from perhaps a handful of very senior civil servants who do not get their hands dirty in this kind of muck, public sector managers are certainly not paid more generously than those in the private sector who should have secured things better and probably less so.

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