Mon Dieu! Nearly half the French population have data nabbed in massive breach

A consolidated infosec briefing reports a huge data breach at French healthcare payment processors Viamedis and Almerys that exposed personal records for more than 33 million citizens (dates of birth, marital status, social security numbers and insurance details) following credential theft/phishing and portal access; CNIL has opened an investigation. Additional items include a Juniper support-portal data exposure, Cisco Expressway CSRF vulnerabilities (patches available), continuing exploitation of Atlassian Confluence and Chromium V8 flaws (with C3RB3R ransomware activity linked), debate over banning Flipper Zero devices in Canada, and a conviction related to dark-web identity theft schemes.