France's Cybersecurity Crisis Deepens | France News

France News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 25, 2026 · 1m

France’s public sector is under relentless cyberattack, with a fresh breach hitting an inheritance service within the tax authority — the third major incident in recent months. Previous strikes exposed over a million individuals’ personal and tax data, while earlier breaches at ministries and agencies compromised up to twelve million employees. Experts blame France’s centralized government structure, which concentrates vast troves of sensitive data in single targets, alongside weak multi-factor authentication adoption and laxer security rules for public entities compared to private firms. The…