By Marco Hugo Barsotti MHB 
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Sarah Knafo is a French MEP, elected in 2024 on the Reconquête list, the party of Éric Zemmour for which she was also an adviser during the 2022 presidential campaign. Known for her hardline positions on security and immigration, she is one of the most critical voices towards the current French government.
The tweet in three lines
Knafo accuses Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu of not having protected French citizens’ sensitive data, after three cyber‑attacks in six months affecting the tax authority and the land registry. She publicly demands accountability for a possible third data leak, for the delay in communication and for security flaws that were never truly fixed. She links the episode to the bill that would require real identity to access social networks.
The full text, translated
Prime Minister @SebLecornu, you said you would work all summer. Where are you? Your government asks us for our incomes down to the last cent, knows our rent, our children, our accounts. It is not able to protect all this.
In January the FICOBA banking file was raided. At least 1.2 million accounts were exposed, accessed for weeks thanks to the login credentials of one of its officials.
In June it hit the General Directorate of Public Finances. Bercy only acknowledged it on August 13. Almost 680 000 people involved. The file is already for sale on the internet for a few thousand euros.
Today a third data leak is claimed. According to French Breaches, it would involve over 2 million owners: names, dates of birth, addresses, cadastral identifiers, cadastral parcels, owned assets. The hacker claims to still have access to the system. He even specifies that he himself stopped the data extraction, finding it too slow. Therefore it is not the State that stopped him.
We understand well what this means. A thief now has the list of owners, their addresses, their parcels and the value of their assets: an ordered catalogue by wealth. A con artist, for his part, has everything needed to call an elderly person knowing their name, date of birth, address and account details, and pose as their banker with perfect credibility. The State has not only lost our data: it has armed those who will use it against us.
Three attacks in six months, on the most sensitive files that the Republic holds on the French. On behalf of all taxpayers, I ask you three questions.
The first: is this third leak confirmed? Taxpayers have the right to know if their assets are today for sale on the internet, and only you can confirm it to them.
The second: why were we kept in the dark? The intrusion dates back to late June. It was made public only in mid‑August. For six weeks hundreds of thousands of families were unaware they were exposed, while every day counts to protect themselves.
The third: what have you fixed? The first two intrusions followed the same route, the usurpation of an official’s credentials. The same door, twice, six months apart. And today the hacker claims to still have access to you. Taxpayers fund a national cybersecurity agency and a digital administration. They pay for a shield. They have the right to know why they continue to suffer the blows.
You are heading a machine that knows everything about us and does not know how to protect itself. And it is you, today, who want to have a law approved that requires every Frenchperson to submit an identity document to access social networks. Connecting each person’s name to their opinions, their readings, their colors, and entrusting this file to the administration that has just let our bank accounts and our assets slip away. It will be without us and against us.
Sarah Knafo
Rachel’s Editorial – When the State Does the Laundry with the Coffers
Sarah Knafo has raised her voice against a government that, it seems, has perfected the art of losing citizens’ most sensitive data as if they were mismatched socks. Three violations in six months are no coincidence, it is a résumé of public ineptitude. Yet Prime Minister Lecornu responds with the silence of someone who has already forgotten where they put the house key.
It is not just a matter of “oops, we did it”. It is the same door that, twice, was opened with the credentials of an official so easily stolen by a cyber‑thief. If security were a recipe, France is serving a soup of weak passwords, with a pinch of communication delays, all seasoned with a dusting of electoral promises.
And now, as if nothing had happened, the proposal to force every citizen to show an identity card to enter social media. It is a bit like asking the thief to hand over proof of identity before stealing again. An administration that cannot safeguard its own records should absolutely not be given permission to catalogue French citizens’ private lives. But why not, if they already have everyone’s house keys?
So, yes, Deputy Knafo is right: the State has armed the predators and now wants to turn all of us into serial numbers. The grace of demanding accounts and assets only to distribute data leaks to anyone with a connection is the latest demonstration of that talented mix of incompetence and arrogance that characterises the French political landscape. Let’s save our data, or at least try to be heard before we are catalogued as market goods.
Koan of the day
Monaco: Master, if the government does not know how to close doors, why does it insist on building new ones with flashier locks?
Master: Because then everyone can see how expensive the door is, without ever noticing that the thief is already inside.
Monaco: So, what is the lesson for those who rely on a key the government has already duplicated?
Master: Learn not to trust the castle’s keys, but to keep your secret in the pocket of your own heart, where neither hackers nor legislators can steal it.
This is all for now. From the Paris newsroom I am Rachel Costa: this is FranciaOggi with Centrale Milano 1575 kHz.