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⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - FRANCE TAX BREACH CREATES PHYSICAL SECURITY NIGHTMARE FOR BITCOIN HOLDERS
France disclosed this month that hackers breached its tax administration and extracted data concerning roughly 678,000 individuals and businesses.
The stolen data reportedly includes names, addresses, income and property information.
An analysis of the alleged database found 26,805 records with income above €100K, including 386 above €1M.
The implications for Bitcoin holders are particularly concerning.
France accounted for 33 of the 52 verified crypto wrench attacks worldwide in H1 2026, according to CertiK.
French prosecutors have also accused a tax employee of using government databases to identify crypto investors and sell personal information to criminals involved in physical attacks and extortion.
No physical attack has been publicly linked to the latest breach.
But sensitive financial and location data on hundreds of thousands of people is now potentially outside the government’s control.
Published at
2026-08-28 18:31:05 UTCEvent JSON
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