French employment agency Pôle emploi data breach impacted 10M people

Pôle emploi, the French government employment agency suffered a data breach that impacted 10 million individuals.

The French government employment agency Pôle emploi suffered a data breach and is notifying 10 million individuals impacted by the security breach.

At the end of last week, the agency was informed of the compromise of the information system of one of its service providers. The press release published by the agency states that its information systems are not impacted.

“In accordance with its obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Pôle emploi has notified the CNIL today. The establishment will also file a complaint with the judicial authorities.” reads the press release published by the agency. “Jobseekers registered in February 2022 and former users of Pôle Emploi are potentially affected by this theft of personal data.”

The security breach exposed the surname and first name and social security number of the impacted individuals. Email addresses, phone numbers, passwords and financial data are not exposed.

The agency recommends job seekers remain vigilant on any potential fraudulent activity, it also added that there is no risk on the compensation and support offered by the agency, nor on access to the personal space of pole-emploi.fr.

Bleeping Computer observed that the French government agency was listed by the security firm Emsisoft on its MOVEit page.

At this time the Clop ransomware group has yet to publish any data from the French agency.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.