Portail Emploi Data Breach
The 2025 Portail Emploi (France Travail) data breach occurred in August 2025 when the employer and recruiter portal Portail Emploi, operated by France's national employment agency France Travail (formerly Pôle Emploi, francetravail.fr), was compromised and scraped by threat actors.
Exposed Data Types
6- Email addresses
- Names
- Salutations
- Phone numbers
- Fax numbers
- Employers
About This Breach
What information was affected in the Portail Emploi incident?
The leaked JSON dataset (600k-portailemploi.txt) comprises 611,698 user records, exposing details of hiring managers, corporate human resources personnel, and job candidates:
- Identity & Salutations: Honorifics / genders (civilite: M., MME), full first and last names (prenom, nom), and professional individual identifiers (idIndividuPro).
- Contact Coordinates: Validated email addresses (mail.adresseMail), primary and secondary phone numbers (telephone1, telephone2), and fax numbers.
- Corporate Associations: Business establishment identification codes (etablissements) and organizational workspace IDs (idEspace).
- Verification Records: Email address verification timestamps (dateValidationMail) and audit dispatch logs.
How many accounts were affected?
Strict RFC canonical email validation verified 488,114 unique valid email addresses across the 611,698 records.
Technical analysis and security risks
The unauthorized compilation of French recruiters and employment seekers facilitates targeted employment phishing schemes, fraudulent hiring campaigns, and corporate credential harvesting.
Recommended actions for affected individuals
Individuals registered on France Travail portals should:
- Treat unexpected emails or text messages requesting personal documents or banking details under the guise of employment benefits with extreme caution.
- Access France Travail services exclusively via verified official domains (francetravail.fr).
Verification and editorial method
LeakData compares the incident name, date, affected-record count, and exposed data types with accessible sources. Unverified fields are not presented as facts, and records are updated when new evidence becomes available.
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