France probes teenage suspect in massive ID data breach

1-MIN READ1-MIN0ListenPublished: 10:27pm, 30 Apr 2026The Paris-prosecutors-office" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="23898" data-entity-type="organization">Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an ⁠investigation into ⁠a 15-year-old, suspected of having ⁠hacked the country’s ID agency and trying to sell the data of millions of French people on the Dark Web this month, it said on Thursday.The teenager, whose identity ‌was not revealed, was detained on April 25 and held in police custody for questioning after he was suspected of hiding behind the nickname “breach3d”, a hacker who had put on sale on hacker forums between 12 million and 18 million lines of stolen data, the ⁠prosecutor’s office said.Fraudulent access and theft of data managed by the ‌state carries a punishment of up to seven years in jail and a fine of as much as €300,000 (US$350,000).01:46Thai military showcases gutted town-sized scam complex on Cambodian borderThai military showcases gutted town-sized scam complex on Cambodian borderANTS, the agency that stores personal data from French citizens such ⁠as ID ⁠cards, passports, driving licences and licence plates, confirmed the data put up for sale ‌was authentic and told the police it had detected “unusual activity” on its network on April 13. ANTS is ‌also ‌handling the age-verification app that is intended to prevent children under ‌15 from gaining access to social networks.