The French Ministry of Finance confirmed that the taxpayer's data leaks affected approximately 678,000 people

The French Ministry of Finance confirmed that the French General Directorate of Public Finance had been hacked at the end of June, leading to the disclosure of taxpayer data. Cybersecurity platform frenchbreaches stated that some 678,000 people were affected and that the leaked information included names, date of birth, address, telephone, mailboxes, tax identification information and income data. Of these, nearly 27,000 declared income of at least 100,000 euros and 386 persons over 1 million euros were allegedly sold on the Internet. This leak, although it does not directly identify the holders of encrypted money, may have been used by criminal groups to screen high net value targets at a time when violent robberies and kidnappings against the holders of encrypted assets have increased in France. According to Chainalysis, France has recorded 30 related publicly disclosed violent attacks in the first half of 2026, at a cost of over $30 million。