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The iceberg is enormous and today we can only see the tip of it. Three computer hackers, aged 23 to 24, were indicted on Tuesday in Paris for “fraudulent access and maintenance in a data processing system, data extraction, fraud and money laundering by an organized gang”. This trio is suspected of having stole 43 million names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses or Social Security numbers, between February 6 and March 5 in the Parisian premises of France Travail. So much information that is used to commit scams of all kinds.
It was on March 8 that this organization, formerly called “Pôle emploi”, notified the National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties (Cnil) that it was hacked. The Paris public prosecutor’s office has charged the Paris judicial police’s anti-cybercrime brigade (BL2C) with the investigations. The number of stolen identities is enormous: 43 million, or 25 GB of data covering twenty years of unemployment registration. “This is the first phase of the process, which consists of penetrating the system to seize the data,” specifies a source close to the matter. In the second phase, these identity thieves use them to carry out scams. »
