France's worst data breaches of 2026: the ranking (spoiler: you're in it)
6,167 data breaches in 2025, a record, and 2026 is already doing better. From the Almerys brother-in-law nobody ever introduced you to, to the teenager who cracked open the ANTS vault by changing one digit in a URL, here is the ranking of France's worst breaches of the…
There are two kinds of French people in 2026: those whose data has leaked, and those who don't know it yet. The CNIL counted 6,167 data breaches in 2025, a record, and the first quarter of 2026 was already off to a faster start. Its president summed up the mood in a sentence we should embroider on throw pillows: nobody is spared by data breaches.
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