France's tax authority had data stolen on 680k taxpayers

I worked as a temp for france tax collection before my degree (circa 2012-2013l.

People were registered in 3 different database, each of them independent, each of them on a different software (one aspnet/vbnet you connected through a browser, one very, very old, clearly IBM software, and the third one was probably as old as IBM, if not older, but looked like a minitel portage on windows). All the relevant data were dispersed on those three (a fourth one existed but only authorised people could use it because you had bank account numbers on it). Also, only the Vbnet software allowed copy paste, which means that to find someone, you had to file the tax number+surname 3 time, without making any mistake.

I wonder which one was broken into. No bank details, so it probably was one I had access to as a temp. Maybe they upgraded their software though, because if I remember correctly only they all worked on the local network (not sure about the aspnet one).

It was really hard for me to parse that headline. I'd instead suggest:

Hacker claims exfiltrating data on 680,000 French taxpayers.

These are the same people who want to identify you whenever you interact with a "social media" website.

I will never comply.

680k taxpayers is a pretty significant number. I wonder what kind of data was actually exposed and whether the affected people are being notified individually.

> "The attack is not recent, however. It dates back to late June - the 26th, to be precise, according to the hacker - and the administration had detected and stopped it at the time, without ever saying a word publicly."

I thought GDPR mandated disclosure of data breaches involving PII. Is France's tax authority somehow exempt?

edit to add: Article 33 particularly,

https://gdpr.eu/article-33-notification-of-a-personal-data-b...

Who takes the fall for mistakes like this?

Please-please, put it online for us to enjoy!

This will be bigger than the Panama Papers!

france is living through its own programmed obsolescence and it is 100% due to boomer generation locking in the vote to favor themselves instead of france future. can you believe that during covid governement pushed to raise retirements pensions by the inflation but forced to lock wages not to do that. they did that ONLY because boomers have the majority vote in this country. they also did the covid lockin for boomers, sacrifying all the youth generation to unemployement and debt.

France spends roughly 14% of its GDP on pensions for people that paid less than they now earning - literaly stealing money to young generations- , making pensions one of the country's largest public expenditures. The pension burden also appears inside the headline budgets of individual ministries: in 2026, about €25bn of the €90bn Education budget (~28%), €9.5bn of the €66.5bn Defence budget (~14%), €8.2bn of the €25.8bn Security/Police-Gendarmerie budget (~32%), and €2.4bn of the €13bn Justice budget (~18%) correspond to pension contributions.

So when France says it spends €90bn on schools, for example, only about €65bn is spending excluding the State pension contribution.

how is it related to obsolescence ? well if you are paid shit, have the highest tax in the world to make wealthy old people, why work hard? right now if you want to be working for the gov as an IT sec engineer you will earn less than an average civil servant working 35hours a week that just requires 0-2 year of post grade studies and you will be on a temp contract. there is literaly no decent engineer that will accept such a job. now scale that to many fields in france and see why this once great country is doomed

We should only allow vote for people that contribute to society or at least give them a stronger x2 x3 vote factor.

Same for retirement funds in france younger generations pay for the older ones but it appears that boomers did not make enough children for growth/equilibrium and are now earning more pensions than their children will. the logical thing to do is to decrease pensions for every boomer that has less than 2 children.

Now do EES face and thumb scans.