For banks and financial institutions
DataBait injects undetectable fictitious user accounts into your customer databases (banking CRM, marketing databases, wealth management, PSD2 partners, and critical processors), each with a real email address and a 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, within 72 hours.
The cost of a data leak
The second costliest industry on average, finance combines the most sought-after data on the market, customer PII, with one of the strictest notification deadlines in European regulation.
Sources: IBM, Cost of a Data Breach 2025 · DORA, Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/301
Data security
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 has left for your marketing routers, your branches, your DSP2 partners and your critical processors, your security tools are blind to what is done with it. DataBait takes over on use: since the fictitious accounts it injects match no real customer, their only expected contacts are your own mailings and those of the senders you have declared; any other contact betrays, by construction, illegitimate use of your data. Alongside your existing setup, and with no structural false positives.
Legal
DataBait provides you with court-admissible proof of the theft of your data: a commissaire de justice report, drawn up within 72 hours, sealed by a qualified eIDAS timestamp.
Each step of the procedure is sealed by a qualified eIDAS timestamp, issued by a QTSP on the EU Trusted List: 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.
For a bank, this report covers both an internal and an external leak: it establishes that a database left its perimeter, on what date, through which channel it was used, and with which forensic metadata. Your legal and compliance teams hold proof already assembled to characterise the facts and decide on the steps to take, whether it concerns an employee bound by banking secrecy or a processor operating outside the scope of its DPA. Without the report, those steps remain theoretical.
Compliance
DataBait supports your DORA and GDPR compliance: the alert, sealed by a qualified eIDAS timestamp, proves your date of awareness, the certain starting point of your notification deadlines to the ACPR and the CNIL.
Beyond the deadline, the leak itself is documented for your filings: to the CNIL under the GDPR (article 33) and to the ACPR under DORA. In an inspection, you demonstrate what you knew, when, and what you did about it.
The DORA Regulation requires financial entities to maintain a documented ICT risk management framework: detection (art. 10), major ICT incident reporting (art. 17 to 23), and oversight of critical third-party providers (art. 28 to 30). DataBait tools all three: a documented detection capability; an incident dossier timestamped within 72 hours, usable for the initial notification (within 4 hours of classification, no later than 24 hours after detection) and the final report (within 1 month) expected by the ACPR; and continuous monitoring of your critical providers that turns the oversight duty into a signal, with no additional audit.
Use cases
DataBait detects and proves leaks and misuse of your customer data, whoever the actor.
A departing adviser walks off with their client book and exploits or resells it, a scenario that weighs especially heavily in private banking. A fictitious account is contacted: you are alerted, and the report lets you bring disciplinary proceedings.
An emailing platform, an agency, or a commercial partner reuses your customer lists for its own unsolicited marketing, outside the DPA: the most common form of misappropriation. The same logic applies to a PSD2 aggregator acting without consent. Contact with a fictitious account reveals the misappropriation, backed by court-admissible proof.
An attacker steals your customer database and distributes it. Your fictitious accounts surface on the dark web: you learn it from monitoring, not from your customers' complaints. You warn them of the phishing and payment-fraud risk, then notify the ACPR and the CNIL — before the press picks it up.
How it works
DataBait turns every attempt to misuse your customer data into proof.
DataBait injects undetectable fictitious user accounts into your customer databases (banking CRM, wealth management, marketing databases shared with your routing providers, branches, and commercial partners, databases opened to PSD2 partners and critical processors), generated from public statistical datasets (INSEE, IRIS, BDNB), with no LLM and no hallucination, each carrying a real email address and a mobile number.
Email address and mobile number monitored continuously; since these accounts match no real customer and your own senders are declared, any other contact received is illegitimate by construction, with no structural false positives.
Continuous search for your fictitious accounts across forums, marketplaces, and dumps, even with no contact at all: you know a database has leaked before the ACPR, the CNIL, or the press.
Every signal generates proof sealed by a qualified eIDAS timestamp and triggers an alert qualified by type, enriched with OSINT and delivered with its forensic metadata, so your risk function can prioritise (email or SIEM integration).
Commissaire de justice report compliant with the AFNOR NF Z67-147 standard and a qualified eIDAS timestamp, court-admissible within 72 hours, directly usable for your DORA and GDPR filings.
Integration
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) or SIEM integration. No agent to install, no schema migration: DataBait injects the fictitious accounts through the same import routes as your prospects or your campaigns.
Protecting the controller
DataBait injects the fictitious accounts into your CRM, your marketing databases, and your wealth management and loyalty applications. You tool your own compliance (DORA, banking secrecy, GDPR) without changing your information system.
Third-party oversight
DataBait injects fictitious accounts dedicated to each database you share with your marketing providers, your PSD2 partners (AISP, PISP), and your critical processors. Segmented by recipient, these databases make it possible to identify the third party behind a misappropriation; you turn the DORA oversight duty (art. 28-30) into a continuous signal, with no annual audit.
Sovereignty
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. This foundation answers the IT outsourcing control requirements carried by DORA and the industry's data localisation obligations.
Trust
No promises: with every alert you receive an evidence dossier already assembled to enforceable standards.
Evidence dossier
AFNOR NF Z67-147
Commissaire de justice report, signed within 72 hours of the alert.
eIDAS · art. 41
Qualified timestamping, with a legal presumption of validity throughout the European Union.
Chain of custody
Documented, admissible before French and European courts.
SecNumCloud-qualified hosting · ISO 27001
Data hosted in France, on ANSSI-qualified infrastructure.
Listed
MARTECH PLAYBOOK 2026 · Havas Business Science
DataBait is listed in this cyber martech catalogue.
Frequently asked questions
Every database holding customer data: banking CRM, marketing databases (routing providers, branches, commercial partners), wealth management and loyalty, databases shared with PSD2 partners (AISP, PISP) and critical processors (cloud, contact centres, SaaS vendors). DataBait detects three families of signal:
Through a whitelist of expected senders, specific to each project. It is built with you: the first messages reaching a fictitious account raise an alert, you qualify them from the review link DataBait sends you, and a sender you recognise as your own, or as that of a provider you mandated, stops raising alerts for its later mailings.
DataBait tools three pillars of the regulation: detection (art. 10), complementing your existing measures; major ICT incident reporting (art. 17 to 23), through an evidence dossier already assembled within 72 hours and usable for the initial notification (within 4 hours of classification, no later than 24 hours after detection) and the final report (within 1 month); and oversight of critical third-party providers (art. 28 to 30), by injecting fictitious accounts into the databases shared with each third party.
Yes, if you segment your databases by recipient: DataBait injects dedicated fictitious accounts into each database you entrust, and a contact received on the accounts of a given database identifies the third party concerned. On a single database shared with several recipients, a contact proves the misappropriation but does not identify who did it; attribution then requires your own investigation.
Banking secrecy (art. L.511-33 of the French Monetary and Financial Code) binds every employee of the institution and refers, for its criminal sanction, to article 226-13 of the French Criminal Code. DataBait does not name whoever made a disclosure: it establishes that a leak occurred and supplies the forensic material that characterises the use made of the data. Identifying an individual employee requires your internal investigation; once that is done, the DataBait chain of evidence makes disciplinary proceedings and, where applicable, criminal action actionable. Without the report, neither is supported.
None. DataBait runs as a fully managed SaaS, with zero infrastructure changes and zero operational overhead on the bank's side. No agent to install, no schema migration, no connector to maintain. Deployment crosses no critical production environment: DataBait injects the fictitious accounts through the same import routes as your prospects or your marketing campaigns.
Data hosted in France, SecNumCloud-qualified hosting (ANSSI qualification), ISO 27001. Proof produced under French law (commissaire de justice, AFNOR NF Z67-147) and recognised throughout the European Union (qualified eIDAS timestamp). No transfer outside the EU. Compatible with the IT outsourcing control requirements carried by DORA and with the financial sector's data localisation requirements.
No. Fictitious user accounts are contact records (email and mobile), never account holders nor parties to a transaction: they stay outside the scope of your KYC checks, your Tracfin filings, and your anti-money-laundering screening chains. Detection operates exclusively on the downstream contact channel (email, SMS, dark web).
A database under DataBait that has never triggered an alert demonstrates, by construction, the absence of detectable misuse. For your operational risk function, that is a measurable indicator of the maturity of your setup and of your critical providers'. For the supervisor, it is an exhibit added to your DORA continuous control framework.
Three areas stand out, along three distinct axes of exposure:
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