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Breach occurred 2024-09-25VerifiedWhat 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.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The French Citizens data breach occurred on September 25, 2024. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on December 20, 2024.
28,445,106 accounts were affected by the French Citizens data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The French Citizens breach exposed the following data types: Device information, Email addresses, IP addresses, Names, Partial credit card data, Phone numbers, Physical addresses.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the French Citizens breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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