Urssaf users are advised to be particularly vigilant with their bank accounts. More than 10,000 people are affected by a leak of confidential data that was mistakenly shared with other users on the weekend of May 1. According to Urssaf, the information of self-employed workers (craftsmen, traders and liberal professions) "who made their tax return before April 27 was displayed on the online account" of other self-employed workers, following a "computer incident".

When it realized its error, Urssaf removed the disputed files from online spaces, but it estimates that the information of 10,640 people could have been consulted by third parties. It states that it has notified the persons concerned, and makes available the telephone number 36 98 "for any further information".

Urssaf alerted by an interior decorator

Vincent Remlinger, an Alsatian interior designer who had sounded the alarm very quickly in Rue 89 Strasbourg, said he had access to the information of 115 professionals in the region, contained in a pdf file of more than 450 pages shared by Urssaf on May 1. "I was amazed that the document contained personal and sensitive information" such as "their income from last year, their schedule of social contributions for 2023, their bank details, their secret identifiers to access the Urssaf ... " he told AFP.

He immediately contacted Urssaf via its online messaging and also directly notified about twenty Alsatian lawyers in the file. "I contacted them one by one and told myself that they were the closest to the law and the most likely to help me react," he said. These professionals "all received bundles of fairly comparable documents, with information on their colleagues, their competitors," he added.

"I suspended the authorization to debit my bank account, and changed my access codes to Urssaf (...). I call for an independent investigation so that this cannot happen again in the future," he said. Of the 7,400 people who received information by mistake, 1,650 consulted their online space with information about other people, said Urssaf. Self-employed entrepreneurs are not affected by the incident.

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