France Confirms Breach of Company Account Tied to National Gun System

Overview

• The Interior Ministry, which disclosed Monday it detected malicious access to a company’s login for the Weapons Information System (SIA), says data were pulled from that account.
• Officials say the central SIA platform was not reached, yet the extracted files may contain gun owners’ names, contact details, and records of weapons transactions.
• Paris prosecutors opened an investigation and assigned the BL2C cybercrime unit after the ministry alerted the court and notified the data regulator CNIL.
• The compromised access was disabled and affected owners were contacted, with all companies that use the SIA required to switch to two-factor authentication starting April 1.
• A seller claims online to hold data tied to 62,511 weapons, a figure reported by French Breaches and TF1 but not confirmed by authorities, which has stoked concern after earlier leaks led to targeted burglaries.