Leak at École Nationale de la Sécurité
Disclosed on 28 February 2025, a data breach at France's École Nationale de la Sécurité, a private-security and VTC training school, exposed the personal records of roughly 30,000 trainees, including national ID numbers, social security numbers, VTC licence numbers and contact details.
- Victim
- École Nationale de la Sécurité
- records
- 30.0K
On 28 February 2025, École Nationale de la Sécurité — a French training school for private-security and VTC (chauffeured-transport) professions — was reported to have suffered a data breach exposing the personal records of approximately 30,000 trainees and applicants. The incident was catalogued by the French breach-tracking project bonjourlafuite.eu.org.
The exposed dataset was unusually sensitive for a training provider, combining standard contact information with strongly identifying administrative and employment data used in the vetting and certification of security and transport workers.
Categories of data reported as exposed include:
- Title, first name and last name
- Date of birth, city and country of birth, and nationality
- Postal address, phone number and email address
- Social security number
- Pôle Emploi (job-seeker) number
- VTC card (chauffeured-transport licence) number
- Qualifications and education level
Public details on the attack vector and the response are limited, and no independent confirmation or regulator statement could be verified for this specific incident; its status is therefore recorded as unknown. The combination of national identifiers, social security numbers and contact data makes affected individuals particularly exposed to identity theft and targeted fraud.