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

The French government agency that handles the issuing and management of citizens’ identity documents, including national IDs, passports, and immigration documents, confirmed Wednesday that it experienced a data breach.

In an announcement, the Agence Nationale des Titres Sécurisés (ANTS) commented the data stolen in the breach could include full names, dates and places of birth, mailing and email addresses, and phone numbers on an undisclosed number of citizens. ANTS remarked the investigation to determine how the breach happened and its impact is ongoing, and individuals whose data was affected are being notified. This also touches on aspects of software update.

ANTS, which stated it detected the attack on April 15, did not specify how many the public were affected by the breach. But some reporting suggests millions may have had some of their personal information stolen.

a hacker has advertised the stolen data on a hacking forum, claiming to have a database with 19 million records. The hacker, according to Bleeping Computer’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.

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