{"id":8178,"date":"2026-08-14T21:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/bitcoiners-warned-after-french-tax-authority-confirms-data-breach-affecting-hundreds-of-thousands\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T21:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T21:17:19","slug":"bitcoiners-warned-after-french-tax-authority-confirms-data-breach-affecting-hundreds-of-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/bitcoiners-warned-after-french-tax-authority-confirms-data-breach-affecting-hundreds-of-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoiners Warned After French Tax Authority Confirms Data Breach Affecting Hundreds of Thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Bitcoiners Warned After French Tax Authority Confirms Data Breach Affecting Hundreds of Thousands<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bitcoiners have been warned after France\u2019s tax administration confirmed that hackers breached its information system, exposing sensitive financial and personal data belonging to hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and businesses.<\/p>\n

Writing on X on Friday, Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp said the leak was \u201cmore bad news for Bitcoiners living in the leading country for wrench attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lopp has created a tracker counting wrench attacks<\/a> \u2014 when physical violence is used to steal crypto \u2014 across the world. A large amount happens in France, where data has been leaked before.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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More bad news for Bitcoiners living in the leading country for wrench attacks. The French tax authority has been hacked and 678K records leaked.<\/p>\n

26,805 people with income over 100K\u20ac
386 people with income over 1M\u20ac
8 people with income over 10M\u20achttps:\/\/t.co\/KlT0XqPLFR<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jameson Lopp (@lopp) August 14, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

The news comes one day after hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor announced<\/a> a data breach exposing customer data.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cybersecurity researchers at FrenchBreaches, who reviewed samples of the leaked data, reported<\/a> that the affected records break down to roughly 392,867 individuals and 285,570 businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among the individuals, an estimated 26,805 have a reported annual taxable income of \u20ac100,000 or more, 386 exceed \u20ac1 million, and eight exceed \u20ac10 million. The hacker is said to be offering the full dataset for sale for several thousand euros.<\/p>\n

The breach first surfaced publicly on August 12, when a hacker using the alias \u201cZeroBytes\u201d posted on a cybercrime forum claiming to have infiltrated internal DGFiP servers and obtained VPN credentials that unlocked an internal lookup tool covering millions of taxpayers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the hacker\u2019s own account, the extraction was interrupted before it could be completed, leaving what they described as only a partial dataset of 678,438 records.<\/p>\n

The exposed sample reportedly includes highly sensitive information: full legal names, dates and places of birth, home and mailing addresses, marital status, number of dependents, internal tax identification numbers, reference taxable income, individual withholding tax rates, phone numbers, email addresses, and records of past correspondence with tax officials.<\/p>\n

Security analysts warn that this combination of identity, contact and financial data could fuel highly convincing phishing campaigns impersonating tax authorities, as well as identity theft and fraud schemes tailored to victims\u2019 income levels or family circumstances.<\/p>\n

2025 was the worst on record for wrench attacks (crypto targeted kidnappings), with around 55 reported globally last year, according to TRM Labs. Lopp\u2019s tool counted <\/a>over 70 throughout last year. And this year is already looking bad, according to the tracker: 54 attacks have been documented so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wrench attacks made headlines last year when crooks kidnapped David Balland, co-founder of crypto hardware wallet brand Ledger, and his wife in France.<\/p>\n

Criminals held the pair for around 24 hours before they were rescued by the French authorities.<\/p>\n

This post Bitcoiners Warned After French Tax Authority Confirms Data Breach Affecting Hundreds of Thousands<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Mathew Di Salvo<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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