By Phil Serafino | Updated on Aug 16, 2026 at 04:35 PM
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu will hold a crisis meeting Monday to respond to the cyberattack disclosed last week targeting the country’s tax collection agency.
A judicial investigation of the hack is under way, Lecornu’s office said Sunday. People whose data were compromised in the attack on the General Directorate of Public Finance will be notified beginning Monday, according to the statement.
The inter-ministerial crisis meeting will review the notifications that will be made to taxpayers, as well as the steps that are being taken to improve cybersecurity, Lecornu’s office said.
The cyberattack, which took place in June and July, was revealed last week. A hacker obtained information concerning 678,000 individual and business tax accounts, including their taxable income and the tax withholding rate, the government said Friday. Data relating to the addresses and sizes of real estate properties were also accessed, according to the statement.