Rogue employee
A departing employee walks off with your customer database and exploits or resells it. A fictitious account is contacted: you are alerted, and you hold the proof.
Limit the regulatory, financial, and reputational impact of your customer data leaks
DataBait injects fictitious user accounts into your databases, each with a real email address and mobile number, monitored 24/7. Since these accounts match no real customer, any email, SMS, or call they receive reveals illegitimate use of your data and produces court-admissible proof.
The cost of a data leak
The cost of a data leak rises with the time taken to detect it; insider-driven leaks are among the slowest to detect, and the most expensive.
3,73M USD
Average cost of a leak in France
All causes combined
260days
Detecting an insider-driven leak
2nd slowest vector to detect
4,92M USD
Cost of an insider-driven leak
The most expensive vector
Source: IBM, Cost of a Data Breach 2025
Data security
The blind spot in your security tools
DataBait detects the actual theft of your data through its use, once it has left your information system.
Your EDR and DLP watch access and the perimeter of your information system; once the data is out, they are blind to what is done with it. DataBait takes over on use: since the fictitious accounts it injects match no real customer, any contact they receive betrays, by construction, illegitimate use of your data.
Legal
Court-admissible proof, within 72 hours
DataBait provides you with court-admissible proof of the theft of your data: a commissaire de justice report, drawn up within 72 hours.
Each step of the procedure is sealed by a qualified eIDAS timestamp: contract signature, the list of fictitious accounts DataBait injected, source code of the emails and SMS received, through to the commissaire de justice report that consolidates them. Compliant with the AFNOR NF Z67-147 standard, this report is admissible before French courts.
Compliance
Your regulatory diligence, proven
DataBait supports your GDPR / NIS2 / DORA compliance: the alert, sealed by a qualified eIDAS timestamp, puts an enforceable date on the signal from which your date of awareness runs, the starting point of your notification deadlines to supervisory authorities (72 hours for GDPR and NIS2, DORA on its own timeline).
Beyond the deadline, the leak itself is documented for your notification: to the CNIL under the GDPR (article 33), as well as under sector regimes (HDS, ACPR, DORA) or cross-sector ones (NIS2). In an inspection, you demonstrate what you knew, when, and what you did about it.
Use cases
Internal or external leak
DataBait detects and proves leaks and misuse of your data, whoever the actor.
Rogue partner or subcontractor
A third party uses your data outside the contractual scope. Contact with a fictitious account betrays that use: you establish the misappropriation, backed by court-admissible proof.
External leak / dark web
An attacker steals your database and distributes it. Your fictitious accounts surface on the dark web: the leak is revealed before it is ever used against your customers.
How it works
Five steps to proof
DataBait turns every attempt to use your data into proof.
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Inject
DataBait injects fictitious user accounts into your database, each with a real email address and mobile number.
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Monitor
Email address and mobile number monitored continuously; since these accounts match no real customer, any contact received is illegitimate by construction, with no structural false positives.
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Dark web scanning
Continuous search for your fictitious accounts on the dark web, even with no contact at all.
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Alert
Every signal (illegitimate contact or dark web appearance) generates proof sealed by a qualified eIDAS timestamp and instantly triggers a qualified alert, enriched with OSINT and delivered with its forensic metadata, through the channel of your choice.
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Prove
Commissaire de justice report compliant with the AFNOR NF Z67-147 standard and a qualified eIDAS timestamp, court-admissible within 72 hours.
Instant
Time to alert
48 h
Proof collecting window
Within 72 h
Court-admissible report
Integration
Zero installation, zero false positives
DataBait is a fully managed SaaS: it runs with no agent and no change to your infrastructure, and carries no operational overhead for you; every alert is a real signal, with no false positives to triage.
Alerts reach you through the channel of your choice: email (the primary channel, precisely addressable per recipient and per project).
Sovereignty
French by conviction, sovereign by design
DataBait is a company incorporated under French law, 100% owned by French shareholders and operated in France on sovereign infrastructure; none of your data transits through or is stored on our servers.
The infrastructure is hosted in France on a platform qualified SecNumCloud (ANSSI) and managed by a French company certified ISO 27001, beyond the reach of extraterritorial jurisdictions. The proof we produce for you is sealed by a qualified eIDAS timestamp, issued by a provider (QTSP) on the EU Trusted List.
Sovereignty, point by point
- 100% French capital
- SecNumCloud-qualified hosting (ANSSI)
- ISO 27001-certified managed services
- Qualified eIDAS timestamp issued by a QTSP on the EU Trusted List
- None of your data stored on our side
Trust
Enforceable standards, not promises
AFNOR NF Z67-147
The French standard for digital reports, admissible before a French court.
SecNumCloud-qualified hosting
ANSSI-qualified sovereign cloud, ISO 27001-certified managed services, beyond the reach of extraterritorial laws.
Qualified eIDAS timestamp
Every piece of evidence carries a legal presumption of validity throughout the European Union.
Listed
MARTECH PLAYBOOK 2026 · Havas Business Science
DataBait is listed in this cyber martech catalogue.
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