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French employment agency could face €5m privacy fine over cyberattack data breach

By Matthew Newman ( December 18, 2025, 15:40 GMT | Insight) -- France Travail, the country's public employment agency, could be fined €5 million for violating EU data protection rules after a cyberattack in 2024 exposed millions of job seekers’ personal data, a French privacy official said at a hearing in Paris on Thursday. A lawyer for France Travail said the data breach was an "electric shock" that prompted the agency to accelerate the rollout of a multi-factor authentication system to access the agency's portal.The French public employment agency, France Travail, could be fined 5 million euros ($5.9 million) for violating EU data protection rules after a cyberattack in 2024 exposed millions of job seekers’ personal data, a French privacy official said at a hearing in Paris on Thursday....

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