In what has been recorded as the country’s biggest cyber security breach, hackers got their hands on the data of 33 million people, half of France’s population. The information, including social security numbers, was leaked from the systems of two healthcare companies. 
Dutch intelligence revealed that state-sponsored Chinese hackers infiltrated military systems last year. It was understood that spyware called “Coathanger”, which was specially produced for the firewall system called Fortigate, was used to infiltrate the network.
Xiaolang Zhang, who worked on Apple’s highly secretive automobile project, was sentenced to 120 days in prison and fined $140,000 for stealing information and selling it to a Chinese competitor. 
Led by Britain and France, 35 countries have agreed to jointly tackle spyware. 
According to a Chainalysis report, the amount of cryptocurrency victims of ransom viruses were forced to pay to hackers in 2023 broke a record with 1 billion dollars.