France's National Agency For Managing Ids And Passports Suffered A Data Breach Last Week

The French authorities confirmed that France Titres, besides known arsenic Agence nationale des titres sécurisés (ANTS), knowledgeable a information breach past week. France Titres disclosed that it detected a information breach connected April 15. The adjacent day, a hacker claimed work for nan breach and claimed to person up to 19 cardinal records that they are attempting to sell. According to Bleeping Computer, nan information does not look to person been wide leaked yet.

France Titres is responsible for nan country's recognition and registration materials, including driver’s licenses, nationalist ID cards, passports and migration documents. The compromised information includes afloat names, email addresses, dates of birth, relationship identifiers, login IDs, telephone numbers and mailing addresses. The section said that while nan breach did not licence entree to its portals, nan exposed accusation could beryllium utilized for phishing attacks aliases different illicit actions. The announcement advised be aware regarding immoderate suspicious communications claiming to beryllium from nan agency.