Incidents from
On 31 December 2024, the DragonForce ransomware gang listed Cogitis — a French inter-municipal IT syndicate serving local authorities — on its leak site, claiming around 81 GB of exfiltrated data including internal files and personal data tied to the public bodies it supports.
On 28 December 2024, the Space Bears ransomware group claimed to have compromised an Atos database; the French IT giant investigated and concluded its own systems were not breached, attributing the leaked Atos-related data to a compromised external third-party infrastructure.
A ransomware attack disclosed in late December 2024 crippled Arsoé de Soual, the agricultural IT provider hosting livestock-management software for ~30,000 farmers across some 22 French departments; systems were encrypted and a ransom demanded, with no data exfiltration detected.
A misconfigured Amazon cloud storage system run by Volkswagen software subsidiary Cariad exposed data on about 800,000 EV owners across VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda, including contact details and precise vehicle location data for roughly 466,000 cars.
A database containing roughly 22 million records on Movistar Peru customers — DNI numbers, names, birth dates, and addresses collected between 2016 and 2018 — circulated freely on hacking forums over the December holiday break.
In December 2024, the ransomware-as-a-service group Cicada 3301 claimed to have stolen 40 GB of data from Peugeot dealerships (mainly in Lot-et-Garonne, France), including customer ID documents, VINs and vehicle inventory data, threatening to publish it by 6 January 2025.
On 25 Dec 2024, data-security firm Cyberhaven's Chrome extension was hijacked via a phishing attack and pushed a malicious update that exfiltrated cookies and session tokens from roughly 400,000 users over a 24-hour window.
In December 2024, data alleged to have been taken from the Brazilian lead generation platform Speedio was posted for sale to a popular hacking forum. The data was allegedly obtained from an unsecured Elasticsearch instance and contained over 62M records of largely public business information…
Customer data attributed to French electronics retailer Electro Dépôt surfaced as one of at least 17 French breaches consolidated on an open database, exposing names, contact details, IP addresses and partial payment data.
In December 2024, French sporting-goods retailer Go Sport was named in dark-web claims of a customer data leak; the alleged fresh breach was debunked, with the data tracing back to a 'go-sport.com' file in an earlier compilation of past French breaches.
Customer database of French sporting-goods retailer Sport 2000 — covering roughly 4.3 million people — was stolen and circulated on hacking forums and the dark web, exposing names, contact details, dates of birth and purchase history.
Wakanim user data surfaced in a misconfigured, publicly accessible ElasticSearch server hoarding ~95 million records from 17 past French breaches, exposing names, emails, postal and IP addresses and phone numbers.
In December 2024, the video sharing Community BitView suffered a data breach that exposed 63k customer records. Attributed to a backup taken by a previous administrator earlier in the year, the breach exposed email and IP addresses, bcrypt password hashes, usernames, bios, private messages, video…
On 12 December 2024, French PC-hardware e-tailer Top Achat (LDLC group) disclosed a breach exposing customer names, email and postal addresses; no passwords or payment data were affected. The intrusion was linked to an earlier compromise at parent company LDLC.
In December 2024, data claimed to be breached from the multi-level marketing company Young Living Essential Oils was posted to a popular hacking forum. The data contained 1.1M unique email addresses alongside names, the country of the account and in many cases, their date of birth.
On 10 December 2024, French high-tech e-commerce retailer LDLC disclosed a data breach exposing personal data (names, email addresses, phone numbers) of both its online and in-store customers — potentially several million people — though it stated no financial or sensitive data was affected.
The Lynx ransomware gang breached Electrica Group, one of Romania's largest electricity suppliers serving 3.8 million users, disrupting customer-facing services while SCADA and other critical grid systems were isolated and kept running.
On 4 December 2024, the Brain Cipher ransomware group publicly claimed to have stolen over 1 TB of data from Deloitte UK; Deloitte said the allegations related to a single client's system outside its own network and that no Deloitte systems were impacted.
French bakeware and kitchenware brand Guy Demarle disclosed in December 2024 that a cyberattack had copied part of its customer database, exposing names, postal addresses, email addresses and phone numbers; passwords and banking data were not affected.
On 2 December 2024, French automotive retailer Norauto disclosed a cyberattack on its vehicle-rental service that exposed personal data of about 78,000 customers, including names, contact details and, in some cases, ID-document numbers; the dataset was put up for sale on BreachForums.
RansomHub ransomware forced Costa Rica's state oil refiner RECOPE to switch its entire fuel-distribution network to manual operations, triggering the first real-world deployment of the U.S. State Department's FALCON cyber-response program.
On 27 November 2024, a database from French camping-holiday booking platform Ze Camping (ze-camping.fr) covering 2014-2024 was advertised for sale on a darknet forum, exposing some 1.6 million records including names, logins, hashed passwords, dates of birth, phone numbers and postal addresses.
On 26 November 2024, a dataset of user-account records tied to JVS-Mairistem — a leading French software vendor for municipalities and local authorities — was reported leaked, exposing names, email addresses, logins, phone numbers and the associated local authority.
On 24 November 2024, a threat actor advertised a leak of personal data on 3.6 million customers of French telecom operator SFR — names, postal and email addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers — plus 150,000 IBANs offered for separate sale on the dark web.