Increase in Scam Calls Following Data Breaches in France

Owen Simonin, founder and CEO of the French crypto platform Meria, stated that there has been an increase in scam calls impersonating customer service representatives from legitimate platforms such as Binance and Meria following several recent data breaches in France. The scammers falsely claim that users' accounts or funds are at risk, prompting users to urgently transfer their crypto assets to designated addresses. Simonin emphasized that the platform will never request users to initiate transactions or provide personal information unless the users have contacted them first. The French Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFiP) disclosed in August that a data breach incident allowed hackers to obtain data from 678,000 taxpayers.

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