France’s statistics department hit by cyberattack on staff directory

The institution that counts France found itself counting victims this week. INSEE, the national statistics department, said a cyberattack had exposed personal data belonging to about 12,800 current and former staff, along with members of the civil-service corps attached to the agency.

The breach was detected on 19 June.

What was taken, according to INSEE, was the unglamorous kind of data: names, identity details, and professional contact information pulled from an internal staff directory. What was not taken matters more.

The agency said passwords, bank details, and social-security numbers were not part of the haul, and that an investigation had found no compromise of the data INSEE collects from businesses and private individuals.

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