Tax hack: What we know about the cyberattacks on French government agencies

Cyber hackers have stolen detailed financial information on hundreds of thousands of individuals and companies from tax and land registry computers, French authorities admitted on August 14. France's Public Finance agency (DGFiP), which oversees the tax system, said there were two separate cyber attacks on its computers. Details from more than 678,000 individual and professional accounts were taken in the first hack in June, with names, "income reference data" and tax rates paid among the details taken. The second theft in July concerned details on 200,000 land registry accounts. The agency's head, Amélie Verdier, ​said Tuesday that another data breach was detected on Monday that ⁠is still being evaluated. To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: En esta foto tomada el 5 de marzo de 2015, los empleados trabajan en la sede de Bitdefender, una empresa líder rumana en ciberseguridad, en Bucarest, Rumanía. Rumanía, el país de Europa del Este, conocido más por su desor...