Overview
- France Travail and the Union nationale des missions locales announced that personal data of about 1.6 million young people may have been exposed following a cyberattack.
- Potentially affected information includes names, dates of birth, social security numbers, France Travail identifiers, email and postal addresses, and phone numbers.
- The agencies said passwords and banking details were not extracted in the incident.
- Early findings indicate an agent’s account at a mission locale was taken over, after which the intruder created two accounts and consulted records of young beneficiaries.
- Authorities will notify those concerned, urge vigilance against phishing or identity fraud, and have reported the incident to ANSSI and the CNIL.