By Marco Hugo Barsotti MHB 
You are listening to a new special of Francia Oggi on podcast and on Centrale Milano 1575 kHz.
Dramatic developments in the fight against cybercrime in France. The hacker group known as ZeroBytes has confirmed the sale of data stolen from the national tax databases, fueling alarm among authorities and the public.
Details of the sale and data volumes
According to reports from the cybercriminals, the first batches of files have already been sold to two buyers for a sum of a few thousand euros. However, the threat remains extremely critical as the stolen databases are still available on the market and could be replicated for a multitude of other clients. The attack, which occurred through two distinct intrusions between June and July, hit the General Directorate of Public Finances hard. The impact affects over six hundred and seventy-eight thousand taxpayers and approximately two hundred thousand land registry accounts. Among the stolen information are names, surnames, tax income, and the withholding tax rate.
Institutional response and ongoing investigations
The French government is on high alert. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has called an interministerial crisis meeting to manage the emergency and coordinate security actions. In parallel, the Paris Prosecutor’s Office has officially opened an investigation into fraudulent data extraction and criminal conspiracy. However, those responsible for the attack have stated that they operate outside French borders, declaring they do not fear extradition and are acting exclusively for pure economic profit.
Rachel’s Editorial – The Auction of the Republic
I am now reading you my editorial for today.
Welcome to a France where state secrets have become a matter of a few thousand euros. While citizens realize they have been emptied out, the ZeroBytes hackers are already auctioning off our personal data, making national security a much more hypothetical than real concept.
It is a true comedy of the absurd. The government calls interministerial crisis meetings with the solemnity of those managing an epochal disaster, but the reality is that the files have already been sold and the culprits are already safe. Data management is a chaos that is almost laughable, if not for the helplessness it provokes.
There is a bitter irony in all this. This is Macron’s France, a government that insists on wanting to record every citizen to have control over social networks, even ignoring the negative rulings of the Constitutional Court. They have even ordered Lecornu to rewrite the law to tighten the digital grip, but how can one expect to monitor the soul of the people when they cannot even close the door to their own servers?
In conclusion, this State is a sieve. They try to tighten their control over you through bureaucracy and surveillance, but they let the essential slip through the fingers of anyone who knows how to navigate a database. A paradox worthy of a cruel satire of a power that wants to know everything about you, but is incapable of protecting anything.
Koan of the day
Monk: Master, if a man’s identity is sold at the market, what remains of his essence?
Master: The market buys the name and the weight of his purse, but it can never buy the breath that generated it.
Monk: And yet power insists on wanting to trace every step and enclose the path of every being.
Master: He who tries to imprison the shadow in a box will only discover that the box is empty.
This is all for now. From the Paris newsroom, I am Rachel Costa: this is FranciaOggi with Centrale Milano 1575 kHz.