ShellCodeX Breach Report
French Citizens Data Breach
Verified breach
Accounts exposed
28,445,106
Breach date
25 Sep 2024
Added to tracker
20 Dec 2024
Data classes
7
What happened
In September 2024, over 90M rows of data on French Citizens was found left exposed in a publicly facing database. Compiled from various data breaches, the corpus contained 28M unique email addresses with the various source breaches each exposing different fields including name, physical and IP address, phone number and partial credit card data including payment type and last 4 digits.
Exposed data
Device information
Email addresses
IP addresses
Names
Partial credit card data
Phone numbers
Physical addresses
Recommended actions
- Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing French Citizens — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
- Monitor your bank and card statements closely and consider requesting a card replacement.
- Stay alert for smishing (SMS phishing) and SIM-swap attempts using your phone number.
- Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.
- Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
Am I affected?
Check whether your email address appears in this breach.
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