Leak at Éclaireuses et Éclaireurs de France

On 20 March 2025, Éclaireuses et Éclaireurs de France (EEDF) — a long-established secular French scouting and guiding youth movement — was reported as the victim of a data breach exposing the personal details of roughly 44,000 members.

The leak surfaced during the broader 2025 wave of breaches affecting French associations, sports federations and membership organisations, tracked publicly by the bonjourlafuite.eu.org monitor. As reported by ZATAZ, the stolen member records from organisations including scouting groups were funnelled into criminal "look-up" services — paid search bots circulating on Telegram and Discord that let buyers query a name, address or phone number against the aggregated stolen databases.

The exposed data is described as covering:

• First and last names, and gender
• Dates and places of birth
• Postal addresses
• Professions
• Email addresses
• Landline and mobile phone numbers

The precise intrusion vector was not publicly confirmed. The data set predominantly concerns a youth-focused membership organisation, making the exposure of minors' and parents' contact and identity details a notable privacy concern. As of reporting, EEDF's response and any regulatory (CNIL) notification had not been publicly detailed, and the incident status remains unknown.