French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
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French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
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Re: French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
#2Great, now scammers can steal my identity directly from the government. I hope they release a tool to check if I'm impacted or at least email me about it.
Re: French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
#3Great, now scammers can steal my identity directly from the government. I hope they release a tool to check if I'm impacted or at least email me about it.
are govs required to comply with GDPR and data breaches laws?
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Re: French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
#5Great, now scammers can steal my identity directly from the government. I hope they release a tool to check if I'm impacted or at least email me about it.
Alternatively, hackers can now be used as a method of age identification.
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#6I received the email telling me I am impacted today.
Ironically it changes nothing for me as that same data had already been leaked by the French government agency that handles unemployment benefits a couple years ago. Silly me had not bothered deleting that account even after it was no longer necessary due to finding a new job.
Re: French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
#719 millions de Français! Et moi, et moi, et moi.
Re: French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
#8Great, now scammers can steal my identity directly from the government. I hope they release a tool to check if I'm impacted or at least email me about it.
are govs required to comply with GDPR and data breaches laws?
Yes, but unelected bureaucrats only impose fines on the private sector.
Re: French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
#9It seems to me we must move away from worrying about ransomware, data breach, data protection as that ship has already sailed and everyone's PII has already been stolen. We should think of how to verify people's identities online (for things like government benefits etc). I have heard of the Dutch and the Japanese using national digital identity systems although I am unclear how they work. India is doing biometrics. I am curious what the US will eventually land on.
Re: French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
#10> the data stolen in the breach could include full names, dates and places of birth, mailing and email addresses, and phone numbers on an undisclosed number of citizens
Nothing really new here sadly, this information about me have leaked half a dozen of times in the past 2-3 years or so. These things will never change if the only penalty the company/agency gets is "send a message to your users saying you are sorry and that it won’t happen again".