For healthcare organisations and operators
DataBait injects undetectable fictitious user accounts into your patient files (electronic patient record, laboratory information systems, appointment databases, databases shared with your software vendors, your HDS hosts, and your processors), each with a real email address and a mobile number, monitored 24/7. Since these accounts match no real patient, 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
Healthcare organisations combine an exposure few industries match: they handle health data, the most sensitive category under the GDPR; year after year, they face the highest leak cost of any industry; and they share their patient files with a dense ecosystem of software vendors, hosts, and processors, the source of a major share of leaks.
Sources: IBM, Cost of a Data Breach 2025 · CNIL
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 gone out to your software vendors (electronic patient record, laboratory management), your HDS hosts, your appointment platforms, or your telehealth providers, they are blind to what is done with it. Every provider is a legitimate exit route for your patient files, and just as many misappropriation surfaces beyond the reach of your perimeter tools. DataBait takes over on use: since the fictitious accounts it injects match no real patient, 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. Complementing your existing setup, 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 healthcare organisation, this report covers both an internal and an external leak: it establishes that a patient database left its perimeter, on what date, through which channel it was used, and with which forensic metadata. Your legal affairs department and your DPO hold proof already assembled to characterise the facts and decide on the steps to take, whether it concerns a professional bound by medical confidentiality or a software vendor, host, or processor operating outside the scope of its DPA. Without the report, those steps remain theoretical.
Compliance
DataBait supports your duty to report health information system security incidents and your GDPR compliance: the alert, sealed by a qualified eIDAS timestamp, proves your date of awareness, the certain starting point of your reporting deadlines to the ARS and your notification deadlines to the CNIL.
Article L.1111-8-2 of the French Public Health Code already requires healthcare organisations to report serious information system security incidents without delay; that report, addressed to the ARS, is passed on to the ANS (CERT Santé). Beyond the deadline, the leak itself is documented for your filings: to the CNIL under the GDPR (article 33), with a heightened requirement as soon as it touches health data (article 9). In an inspection, you demonstrate what you knew, when, and what you did about it.
Directive (EU) 2022/2555 (NIS2) classifies healthcare among the essential entities; its transposition into French law (the Résilience bill) will require a documented ICT risk management framework: detection, major incident notification (early warning within 24 hours, notification within 72 hours, final report within 1 month, to ANSSI), and provider monitoring. DataBait tools all three: a documented detection capability; an incident dossier timestamped within 72 hours, directly usable for the notification; and continuous monitoring of your software vendors, hosts, and processors that turns the chain-of-control duty into a signal, with no additional audit.
Use cases
DataBait detects and proves leaks and misuse of your patient data, whoever the actor.
A departing practitioner or administrative staff member walks off with a patient file and exploits or resells it: a scenario made heavier still by the fact that every record engages medical confidentiality. A fictitious account is contacted: you are alerted, and the report lets you bring disciplinary proceedings.
A health software vendor, a billing provider, or a host leaks or reuses your patient files outside the DPA: exactly the vector of the Dedalus leak (nearly 500,000 patients, CNIL sanction). Contact with a fictitious account reveals the misappropriation, backed by court-admissible proof.
Ransomware hits your organisation and the patient database is distributed, a scenario that has become recurrent in hospitals. Your fictitious accounts surface on the dark web: you learn it from monitoring, not from your patients' complaints. You warn them of the phishing, identity-theft, and blackmail risk, then notify the ARS and the CNIL — before the press picks it up.
How it works
DataBait turns every attempt to misuse your patient data into proof.
DataBait injects undetectable fictitious user accounts into your patient files (electronic patient record, laboratory and imaging systems, appointment and billing databases, databases shared with your software vendors, HDS hosts, and 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 patient 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 ARS, 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 CISO 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 ARS report and your 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: the fictitious accounts are injected through the same import routes as your new patients or your recall campaigns.
Protecting the organisation
DataBait injects the fictitious accounts into your electronic patient record, your laboratory and imaging systems, and your appointment and billing databases. You tool your own compliance (health IS incident reporting, GDPR, NIS2) without changing your information system, and without adding any HDS scope.
Third-party oversight
DataBait injects fictitious accounts dedicated to each database you share with your software vendors, your HDS hosts, your appointment booking platforms, and your telehealth and billing providers. Segmented by recipient, these databases make it possible to identify the third party behind a misappropriation; you keep control of your subcontracting chain as 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 requirements of the PGSSI-S framework and the expectations of the ANS on health information system security. And because DataBait hosts none of your patient data, deploying it adds no HDS scope to your information system.
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 patient data: electronic patient record (EPR), laboratory information systems (LIS) and imaging systems, appointment and billing databases, and databases shared with your health software vendors, your HDS hosts, your appointment booking platforms, your telehealth providers, and your processors. DataBait detects three families of signal:
DataBait first feeds an obligation that is already in force: reporting serious health information system security incidents (article L.1111-8-2 of the French Public Health Code), addressed to the ARS and passed on to the ANS (CERT Santé). The eIDAS-timestamped alert fixes your date of awareness and documents the incident. Directive (EU) 2022/2555 (NIS2) classifies healthcare among the essential entities; its French transposition (the Résilience bill) will require a documented ICT risk management framework and a notification timeline to ANSSI (early warning within 24 hours, notification within 72 hours, final report within 1 month). DataBait tools these pillars: a documented detection capability, an incident dossier timestamped within 72 hours, and continuous monitoring of your software vendors, hosts, and processors.
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 providers, a contact proves the misappropriation but does not identify who did it; attribution then requires your own investigation.
DataBait hosts none of your patient data: it injects fictitious user accounts, generated from public statistical datasets, and monitors only their contact channel (email, SMS). Your real data never leaves your information system, and deploying it adds no HDS scope. Health data falls under article 9 of the GDPR, the most protected category, and its misappropriation exposes you to heightened sanctions. Patient confidentiality is further covered by medical confidentiality (article L.1110-4 of the French Public Health Code), which carries criminal sanctions (article 226-13 of the French Criminal Code). The DataBait report documents the breach, whatever its legal basis.
None. DataBait runs as a fully managed SaaS, with zero infrastructure changes and zero operational overhead on the organisation's side. No agent to install, no schema migration, no connector to maintain. Deployment crosses no critical production environment: the fictitious accounts are injected through the same import routes as your new patients or your recall 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. And because DataBait hosts none of your patient data, deploying it adds no HDS scope to your information system.
A database under DataBait that has never triggered an alert demonstrates, by construction, the absence of detectable misuse. For your CISO and your executive team, that is a measurable indicator of the maturity of your setup and of your software vendors' and processors'. For the ARS, the ANS, and the CNIL, it is an exhibit added to your health information system security framework.
Three areas stand out, along three distinct axes of exposure:
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