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    France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens’ IDs

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    1. PureIsometric on

      “a hacker has advertised the stolen data on a hacking forum, claiming to have a database with 19 million records. The hacker’s forum post referenced the same kind of stolen information as mentioned in ANTS’ announcement and was published before ANTS publicly disclosed the breach on April 20.”

      Wow that sounds like a major breach.

    3. Any-Original-6113 on

      This is likely the tip of the iceberg. When cyber criminals in the service of hostile states steal data, they’ll do their utmost to leave no trace. 

      Since the EU now plans to introduce some kind of user identification, it probably won’t be long before the internet habits-and more- of EU citizens are available to every intelligence agency on the planet

    4. marsupialBasher on

      This is actually good news, imagine if this happened in 2 years, when majority of people will use it.

      Since its relatively early in this digital id charade, there is some hope for whole digital id to gain a lot of negative press and slowly dies off.

    5. rahvan on

      But yes, let’s hand out our IDs to every internet website, because we’re definitely cybersecurity ready for any and all attacks that may come to compromise that data.

      /s

    6. bickid on

      These governments have NO clue about data security but demand that everyone trusts them. And they’re forcing people to comply. It is unbelievable …

    7. SpareManager on

      its quite the thing. not only are we dependent on visa and mastercard. windows in many areas. now they want us to be dependent on android and iOS as verification system. and those verification systems are easily breached.

      ursula needs to go

    9. Neamek on

      *Who could’ve predicted this?*

      Oh right, everyone predicted this would happen, literally everyone.

    11. Haganeproductio on

      Is this the same data breach that happened in February and they’re addressing it only now, or is it different case? I remember reading that some personal information of millions of people in France got in hackers’ hands, but this case doesn’t disclose when did it take place. I’m very worried what will happen to the world if we really start pushing too much sensitive information to the internet and require people to get identified to use some sites which totally don’t need to know anything about me beside what country I’m posting from.