Pajemploi, the French social security service for parents and home-based childcare providers, has suffered a data breach that may have exposed personal information of 1.2 million individuals.
The incident impacts registered professional caregivers working for private employers, typically parents using the Pajemploi service part of URSSAF - the French organization that collects social security contributions from employers and individuals.
"The Pajemploi service has been the victim of a theft of personal data belonging to employees of private employers using the Pajemploi service," reads the announcement from the agency.
"This cyberattack, detected on November 14, could have affected up to 1.2 million employees of private employers using the Pajemploi service," the public service says.
According to the French agency, the data potentially exfiltrated includes the following types:
full names
place of birth
postal address
social security number
name of the used banking institution
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