{"id":12454,"date":"2026-04-29T02:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T02:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/french-police-arrest-21-year-old-hexdex-hacker-over-100-alleged-data-breaches\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T02:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T02:03:33","slug":"french-police-arrest-21-year-old-hexdex-hacker-over-100-alleged-data-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/french-police-arrest-21-year-old-hexdex-hacker-over-100-alleged-data-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"French police arrest 21-year-old \u201cHexDex\u201d hacker over 100 alleged data breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    French police arrest 21-year-old \u201cHexDex\u201d hacker over 100 alleged data breaches<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A 21-year-old man suspected of conducting approximately 100 data breaches since late 2025 &#8211; including a hack of the French Ministry of National Education that exposed records on almost a quarter of a million employees &#8211; has been arrested at his home in western France.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/french-police-arrest-hexdex-hacker\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French police arrest 21-year-old \u201cHexDex\u201d hacker over 100 alleged data breaches A 21-year-old man suspected of conducting approximately 100 data breaches since late 2025 &#8211; including a hack of the French Ministry of National Education that exposed records on almost a quarter of a million employees &#8211; has been arrested at his home in western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,154,979,54,155,164],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-12454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-breach","category-data-loss","category-france","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}