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French unemployment agency data breach impacts 43 million people

Posted on March 14, 2024 by Dissent

Bill Toulas reports:

France Travail, formerly known as Pôle Emploi, is warning that hackers breached its systems and may leak or exploit personal details of an estimated 43 million individuals.

France Travail is the French governmental agency responsible for registering unemployed individuals, providing financial aid, and assisting them in finding jobs.

Yesterday, the agency disclosed that hackers stole details belonging to job seekers registered with the agency in the last 20 years in a cyberattack between February 6 and March 5. Data from individuals with a job candidate profile was also exposed.

Read more at Bleeping Computer. 

Toulas’s report does not mention if there has been any group claiming responsibility for the breach and the incident has not shown up (at least, not yet) on any of the dark web leak sites routinely monitored bots for new additions.

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