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French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks
French tax data theft used stolen staff passwords and evaded DGFIP and ANSSI monitoring.
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An attacker used stolen passwords of staff at France's tax administration to take tax data on hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and businesses in June and July. Neither the tax administration nor France's national cybersecurity agency saw the data leave.
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