{"id":1486,"date":"2026-04-23T04:14:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/frances-national-agency-for-managing-ids-and-passports-suffered-a-data-breach-last-week\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:14:32","slug":"frances-national-agency-for-managing-ids-and-passports-suffered-a-data-breach-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/frances-national-agency-for-managing-ids-and-passports-suffered-a-data-breach-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s national agency for managing IDs and passports suffered a data breach last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French government confirmed that France Titres, also known as Agence nationale des titres s\u00e9curis\u00e9s (ANTS), experienced a security breach last week. France Titres <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/ants.gouv.fr\/toute-l-actualite\/incident-de-securite-relatif-au-portail-antsgouvfr\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\">disclosed<\/a> that it detected a data breach on April 15. The next day, a hacker claimed responsibility for the breach and claimed to have up to 19 million records that they are attempting to sell. According to <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/french-govt-agency-confirms-breach-as-hacker-offers-to-sell-data\/\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\"><em>Bleeping Computer<\/em><\/a>, the data does not appear to have been widely leaked yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>France Titres is responsible for the country&#8217;s identification and registration materials, including driver\u2019s licenses, national ID cards, passports and immigration documents. The compromised data includes full names, email addresses, dates of birth, account identifiers, login IDs, phone numbers and mailing addresses. The department said that while the breach did not permit access to its portals, the exposed information could be used for phishing attacks or other illicit actions. The announcement advised caution regarding any suspicious communications claiming to be from the agency.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/cybersecurity\/frances-national-agency-for-managing-ids-and-passports-suffered-a-data-breach-last-week-201432189.html?src=rss<\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/frances-national-agency-for-managing-ids-and-passports-suffered-a-data-breach-last-week\/\">France&#8217;s national agency for managing IDs and passports suffered a data breach last week<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French government confirmed that France Titres, also known as Agence nationale des titres s\u00e9curis\u00e9s (ANTS), experienced a security breach last week. France Titres disclosed that it detected a data breach on April 15. The next day, a hacker claimed responsibility for the breach and claimed to have up to 19 million records that they are attempting to sell. According to Bleeping Computer, the data does not appear to have been widely leaked yet.\u00a0 France Titres is responsible for the country&#8217;s identification and registration materials, including driver\u2019s licenses, national ID cards, passports and immigration documents. The compromised data includes full names, email addresses, dates of birth, account identifiers, login IDs, phone numbers and mailing addresses. The department said that while the breach did not permit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}