Incidents in sector:
On 20 April 2026, French law firm Gueguen Avocats was listed on the Qilin ransomware leak site, which claimed to have exfiltrated thousands of files including internal emails, financial reports, a password spreadsheet, employee data and client case files.
On 20 January 2026, a data leak affecting ConseilJuridique.net — a French online legal-consultation platform connecting individuals with lawyers — was reported, exposing customer account data; the precise scale and exposed fields were not publicly detailed.
In September 2025, Prosper announced that it had detected unauthorised access to their systems, which resulted in the exposure of customer and applicant information. The data breach impacted 17.6M unique email addresses, along with other customer information, including US Social Security numbers.
In April 2024, over 6M records from the streaming service MovieBoxPro were scraped from a vulnerable API. Of questionable legality, the service provided no contact information to disclose the incident, although reportedly the vulnerability was rectified after being mass enumerated.