--- title: France confirms data breach at government agency that... description: France's national identity document agency, the Agency for National Security of Documents (ANTs), confirmed a data breach detected on April 15. The stolen data... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/france-confirms-data-breach-at-government-agency-that-manages-citizens-ids-zdtih9gad twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens’ IDs | daily.dev og:description: France's national identity document agency, the Agency for National Security of Documents (ANTs), confirmed a data breach detected on April 15. The stolen data... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/france-confirms-data-breach-at-government-agency-that-manages-citizens-ids-zdtih9gad og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZdTIh9Gad.png og:image:alt: France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens’ IDs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens’ IDs **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary France's national identity document agency, the Agency for National Security of Documents (ANTs), confirmed a data breach detected on April 15. The stolen data may include full names, dates and places of birth, mailing and email addresses, and phone numbers. The number of affected citizens has not been officially disclosed, but a hacker advertising the data on a forum claims to have 19 million records. The investigation is ongoing and affected individuals are being notified. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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