News Summary

• The French Ministry of the Economy and Finance has disclosed a data breach.
• An attacker accessed the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) systems and stole data belonging to 678,000 individuals.
• This incident was discovered after a threat actor using the "ZeroBytes" handle claimed the attack and listed a stolen database for sale on the PwnForums hacking forum.
• This is just the latest in a spree of cyberattacks and data breaches that have impacted multiple French government agencies in recent months.