A hacker’s bold claim of swiping 19 million records from France’s core identity management system has forced the government to confirm one of its biggest data exposures yet. The Agence Nationale des Titres Sécurisés, or ANTS—recently rebranded as France Titres—detected the intrusion on April 15, 2026. Five days later, it posted an official notice on its site. Personal details from user accounts on ants.gouv.fr poured out: login IDs, full names, email addresses, dates and places of birth, unique account numbers, postal addresses, phone numbers. Not the scanned documents or biometrics, though. Those stayed safe. France Titres handles passports, national ID cards, driver’s licenses, vehicle registrations, immigration papers. Millions rely on its portal daily. A breach here doesn’t just leak data. It hands criminals the keys to impersonate citizens at scale. The hacker, going by ‘breach3d’ or ‘ExtaseHunters,’ beat officials to the punch.…