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France tax authority suffers data breach impacting 680,000 taxpayers

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France's tax authority, the Direction générale des Finances publiques, has experienced a data breach affecting approximately 680,000 taxpayers. The extent of the stolen information and the method of the breach are currently under investigation. AI

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France tax authority suffers data breach impacting 680,000 taxpayers

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

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    France's tax authority had data stolen on 680k taxpayers Article URL: https:// korben.info/en/france-tax-auth ority-data-breach-680000-taxpayers.html Comments URL: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9298303 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 https:// korben.info/en/france-tax-auth orit…

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