French Ministry of National Education data breach (2026)
incident · incident:france-education-ministry-breach-2026-07
merged This entity was merged into incident:france-education-nationale-agent-training-breach-2026-07; coverage continues there.
The Ministry of National Education disclosed on 31 July 2026 a fraudulent intrusion into one of its information systems that may have led to exfiltration of personal data on a significant number of its staff. Per the ministry's own account, the data concerns agents who worked in an académie since 2001 (identity elements and professional information, status and functions) with contact details, postal address, telephone number and French social-security number for a subset; the system holds no banking data, no passwords and no student data. On 18 August 2026 the actor ZeroBytes claimed 346 million raw lines and asserted it had been detected but not evicted; the minister's office confirmed to franceinfo that the claim corresponds to the already-disclosed intrusion, and continues technical work on the actor's separate claim to hold student records. The actor link rests on French media reporting rather than an attribution by any authority, and no source states an access mechanism for this intrusion (franceinfo, 2026-08-18).
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