France
French DIY retail giant Leroy Merlin discloses a data breach
French home improvement and gardening retailer Leroy Merlin is notifying customers that their personal info has been compromised in a data breach. Leroy Merlin operates in multiple European countries as well as in South Africa and Brazil, employs 165,000 people, and has an annual revenue of $9.9 billion. The incident affects only customers in France, according to […]
French Football Federation discloses data breach after cyberattack
The French Football Federation (FFF) disclosed a data breach on Friday after attackers used a compromised account to gain access to administrative management software used by football clubs. After detecting the unauthorized access, FFF’s security team disabled the compromised account and reset all user passwords across the system. However, before they were detected and evicted from […]
French agency Pajemploi reports data breach affecting 1.2M people
Pajemploi, the French social security service for parents and home-based childcare providers, has suffered a data breach that may have exposed personal information of 1.2 million individuals. The incident impacts registered professional caregivers working for private employers, typically parents using the Pajemploi service part of URSSAF – the French organization that collects social security contributions from […]
Eurofiber France warns of breach after hacker tries to sell customer data
Eurofiber France disclosed a data breach it discovered late last week when hackers gained access to its ticket management system by exploiting a vulnerability and exfiltrated information. Eurofiber France SAS is the French unit of the Eurofiber Group N.V., a Dutch telecommunications service provider that operates a fiber network of 76,000 km across the Netherlands, Belgium, […]
FBI takes down BreachForums portal used for Salesforce extortion
The FBI seized a BreachForums domain used by the ShinyHunters group as a data leak extortion site for the widespread Salesforce attacks, with the threat actor stating that law enforcement also stole database backups for the notorious hacking forum. The domain, Breachforums.hn, was previously used to relaunch the hacking forum this summer, but the site was soon […]
Apple warns customers targeted in recent spyware attacks
Apple warned customers last week that their devices were targeted in a new series of spyware attacks, according to the French national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR). CERT-FR is operated by ANSSI, the National Cybersecurity Agency, and is responsible for preventing and mitigating cybersecurity-related incidents impacting public and critical organizations. According to a Thursday advisory, […]
France slaps Google with €325M fine for violating cookie regulations
The French data protection authority has fined Google €325 million ($378 million) for violating cookie regulations and displaying ads between Gmail users’ emails without their consent. During several investigations between 2022 and 2023, the National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) found that Google’s Gmail email service displayed advertisements in the “Promotions” and “Social” tabs without the […]
Auchan retailer data breach impacts hundreds of thousands of customers
French retailer Auchan is informing that some sensitive data associated with loyalty accounts of several hundred thousand of its customers was exposed in a cyberattack. The company is sending data breach notifications to customers affected by the incident. “We are writing to inform you that Auchan has been the victim of a cyberattack. This attack […]
French telecom giant Orange discloses cyberattack
Orange, a French telecommunications company and one of the world’s largest telecom operators, revealed that it detected a breached system on its network on Friday. The compromised system was discovered and isolated from the rest of the network by Orange Cyberdefense, the company’s cybersecurity business unit, on July 25. This has led to some operational […]
France’s warship builder Naval Group investigates 1TB data breach
France’s state-owned defense firm Naval Group is investigating a cyberattack after 1TB of allegedly stolen data was leaked on a hacking forum. The company characterized this as a “destabilization attempt” and a “reputational attack,” to which it has responded by filing a complaint to protect its client’s data. Meanwhile, Naval Group is investigating with the […]