The institution that counts France found itself counting victims this week. INSEE, the national statistics department, said a cyberattack had exposed personal data belonging to about 12,800 current and former staff, along with members of the civil-service corps attached to the agency.
The breach was detected on 19 June.
What was taken, according to INSEE, was the unglamorous kind of data: names, identity details, and professional contact information pulled from an internal staff directory. What was not taken matters more.
The agency said passwords, bank details, and social-security numbers were not part of the haul, and that an investigation had found no compromise of the data INSEE collects from businesses and private individuals.
The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!For a body that holds the demographic and economic record of an entire country, that last sentence is the one doing the heavy lifting.
