2026 Annuaire des Entreprises (France) — Nova ransomware claim on data.gouv.fr registry (May 20)
Data compromised
Official business registry metadata per actor claim; scope unverified
Technical writeup
BreachHistory recorded May 20, 2026 Nova ransomware marketing against annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr, France’s official open-data business registry platform publishing company identification and administrative records. No CNIL-scale denominator or French government confirmation was uniformly indexed in English trade press at catalog time; BreachHistory tracks an actor-claimed public-sector data incident pending official notice.
Root cause
Nova ransomware extortion claim against French business registry platform