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Illiad units might face €48m in French privacy fines for GDPR violations (update*)

By Matthew Newman ( December 15, 2025, 14:47 GMT | Insight) -- French telecom operator Iliad’s unit Free Mobile could be fined 33 million euros and its fixed-line business Free could face a 15 million euro sanction for alleged violations of EU data protection rules after a 2024 cyberattack that exposed subscriber data, a French privacy official said at a hearing in Paris on Monday. A lawyer for the operator called the proposed sanctions "disproportionate."French telecom operator Iliad’s unit Free Mobile could be fined 33 million euros and its fixed-line business Free could face a 15 million euro sanction for alleged violations of EU data protection rules after a 2024 cyberattack that exposed subscriber data, a French privacy official said at a hearing in Paris on Monday....

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