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In December 2025, France's Pass'Sport program operated by the Ministry of Sports experienced a data breach affecting 6,366,133 unique email addresses across 3.5 million households. The breach was publicly disclosed when the dataset appeared on a popular hacking forum, initially misattributed to CAF (the French family allowance fund). The Ministry of Sports subsequently acknowledged the incident through an official statement.
The compromised data includes email addresses, names, phone numbers, genders, and physical addresses of program participants. The attack vector involved unauthorized access to the Pass'Sport system, though the specific initial access method remains unconfirmed. Data exfiltration occurred prior to the December 2025 posting on the hacking forum, exposing sensitive personal information of millions of French citizens participating in the government sports subsidy program.
The Ministry of Sports confirmed the breach through official channels, though specific containment measures, forensic investigation details, and regulatory notifications were not disclosed in the available information. The incident represents a significant exposure of citizen data within France's government services infrastructure.
Data posted to hacking forum after unauthorized access
The Pass'Sport breach demonstrates critical failures in protecting citizen data within government digital services, particularly for programs handling sensitive personal information across millions of households. The scale of exposure—6.5 million unique email addresses with associated physical addresses and phone numbers—indicates inadequate access controls and data protection measures for a national-scale government database. The incident highlights the need for enhanced monitoring of government data repositories and stricter segmentation between different citizen service systems to prevent misattribution and contain breach impacts.
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