Authorities say the breach only exposed public chat rooms, but alleged attacker claims to have accessed far more data

France's government messenger Tchap was breached via a hijacked account. Officials say only public rooms were exposed; a hacker claims 73,000 accounts.

DINUM, the digital affairs directorate of the French government, warned that hackers used a hijacked user account to breach Tchap, the French government's encrypted messaging…

Authorities say the breach only exposed public chat rooms, but alleged attacker claims to have accessed far more data

Frankreichs Digitalstelle DINUM räumt ein Datenleck beim Regierungs-Messenger Tchap ein. Angreifer konnten ein Konto kompromittieren.

Intruders socially engineered their way in, accessing public chat rooms but not breaking encryption.

The French government revealed that a recent breach of its Tchap encrypted messaging platform affects the accounts of over 73,000 employees in the French public sector.