In recent months, cyberattacks have increased in France. Computer attacks accelerated from the start of 2024, with a barrage of online scams and intrusions of all kinds. Statista study finds cyberattacks expected to cost more than 129 billion dollars to France in 2024.
At the end of the majority of cyberattacks recorded, the personal data of the French ended up in the hands of pirates. Typically, the exfiltrated data includes full names, email addresses, postal addresses or telephone numbers. Sometimes, bank details are also recovered by hackers. This was the case during the Free hack with millions of IBANs ending up in the wild.
Once stolen, the data is generally resold on black markets. Very often, it is on BreachForums, a platform very popular with cybercriminals looking for information, that the auctions are opened. Once purchased, the data can be used to orchestrate other offensives, such as personalized phishing attacks or identity theft attempts.
From there, we see a snowball effect. The more compromised data we find, the more hackers launch cyberattacks… which result in the theft of other information. For Clément Domingo, security researcher who closely follows the situation in France, these are data from eight out of ten French people which circulate on black markets. This is why the French have become the preferred targets of cybercriminals… France has established itself as the most affected country in Western Europe by violations, shows a SurfShark study.
Among the biggest data leaks of the year, we first find the hack of two health care providers, Viamédis and Amerys, of two major operators (Free and SFR), of several brands, namely Boulanger, Cultura , SFR, Truffaut and Grosbill, and several government services, including the Family Allowance Fund (CAF) and France Travail. Unfortunately, the list of affected businesses continues to grow by the day.
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