Overview
- Anne Le Hénanff filed an article 40 signalement to the Paris prosecutor on Monday, October 5, 2026 to trigger a criminal review of BrixHub's activities.
- BrixHub is a publicly accessible search engine that indexes personal data from past leaks and offers paid removal services, and the site claims it can query more than 11 billion records.
- The minister's office says the records likely come from hacks of companies' automated data systems and cites possible offenses such as fraudulent access and unlawful extraction and possession of computer data.
- Le Hénanff publicly warned victims not to pay to remove their data and said platforms that sell leaked information will have to answer to the law.
- The case highlights a wider problem in France of recurring data breaches and commercial services that aggregate leaked records, and prosecutors' next steps could determine how such sites are policed and whether victims can seek redress.