Everyone sends sensitive documents by email and nobody realises the consequences

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Last week, a friend called me in a panic because someone had taken out a consumer loan of 8,000 € in his name.

How? Simply with a copy of his national identity card. The one he had sent by email 3 years ago. His email had been compromised in a data breach — and he didn't even know it.

An overlooked reality

• Every day in France, 400,000 identity documents are sent by email.
• An email passes through 4 to 7 servers before being delivered, and none of those servers encrypt the attachments.

Sending your ID by email is like sticking a photocopy on a public billboard for years.

The real solution

Stop sending sensitive files in plain text. With Lockystar, you drop your document into the app — it is instantly encrypted and stored in your connected space (local or Drive: Google, Microsoft or Nextcloud). You can then share it directly from Lockystar. Only authorised people will be able to decrypt it. Not even Lockystar, Google or Microsoft.

Protect your sensitive documents before it's too late.