{"id":45464,"date":"2026-08-15T00:10:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=45464"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:10:58","slug":"french-taxpayers-data-stolen-in-cyber-attack-french-finance-ministry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=45464","title":{"rendered":"French taxpayers&#8217; data stolen in cyber attack, French Finance Ministry says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\" data-body-type=\"bodyblocks\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PARIS, Aug 14 (Reuters) &#8211; French taxpayers&#8217; data, both individuals and professionals, \u200cwere stolen in a cyberattack, \u200cthe French Finance Ministry said late on \u200bThursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 A &#8220;malicious actor&#8221; claimed on Wednesday he broke into the tax agency, General Direction of Public Finances, in \u200clate June, \u2060the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 Investigations confirmed the \u2060cyberattack, which led to the consulting and extraction of taxpayers&#8217; data, the \u200bstatement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 \u200bFurther probes \u200bare ongoing to \u200cdetermine which specific data and the exact number of taxpayers affected, the ministry said, adding further findings will be disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 &#8220;Users concerned will receive \u200cindividual information specifying the \u200bdata that may \u200bhave been \u200bconsulted or extracted and, \u200cwhere applicable, the precautionary \u200bmeasures to \u200bbe adopted,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2022 The data of 678,000 users was \u200bstolen, \u200csaid the French finance ministry later \u200bon Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Inti Landauro;Editing \u200bby Elaine Hardcastle)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, Aug 14 (Reuters) &#8211; French taxpayers&#8217; data, both individuals and professionals, \u200cwere stolen in a cyberattack, \u200cthe French Finance Ministry said late on \u200bThursday. \u2022 A &#8220;malicious actor&#8221; claimed on Wednesday he broke into the tax agency, General Direction of Public Finances, in \u200clate June, \u2060the ministry said in a statement. \u2022 Investigations confirmed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/46c1f0dab988a9cd13d2fd9967c518253ac30da27cce3623f77e6faa218de772\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefill_w800_h533%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_jpg\/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Freuters.com%2F431d7dd51f6e9b466ae2b300a979dc6e.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-trending-viral-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}