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Leak at France Travail

On 25 September 2025, a leak attributed to France Travail, France's public employment agency, exposed the personal data of about 9,971 job seekers, including their email addresses, names and the email address of their assigned advisor.

Victim
France Travail
records
10.0K
SectorGovernment
CountryFrance

On 25 September 2025, France Travail — France's public employment agency (formerly Pôle emploi) — was reported to have leaked a dataset covering roughly 9,971 job seekers. The disclosure was logged by the French breach tracker bonjourlafuite.eu.org.

The exposed records were limited in scope but clearly tied to the agency's case-management of registered job seekers. The leaked fields included:

  • Job seeker email address
  • Title (civility), first name and last name
  • The email address of the job seeker's assigned advisor

This incident is one of several data-exposure events affecting France Travail through 2024 and 2025, a period in which the agency was repeatedly targeted — including a March 2024 intrusion via its Cap emploi partner and later infostealer/credential-stuffing campaigns against larger pools of users. France Travail's broader handling of job-seeker data drew a €5 million fine from the French data protection authority (CNIL) in January 2026.

The exact attack vector for this specific September 2025 exposure was not independently detailed in public reporting, and the agency's response and remediation status for this dataset remain unconfirmed.

Sources

  1. bonjourlafuite.eu.orghttps://bonjourlafuite.eu.org/#France%20Travail-2025-09-25
  2. cnil.frhttps://www.cnil.fr/en/data-breach-5million-fine-france-travail

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