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French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records

Government disputes claims of continued access as investigators measure damage

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France’s tax authority confirmed that an intruder breached its systems in June and extracted data after a cybercriminal, using the alias “ZeroBytes,” advertised a purported database of two million taxpayers on a cybercrime forum.

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