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Free Mobile, Free face €42m of fines after French privacy breach

( January 14, 2026, 10:43 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: French telecom operators Free Mobile and Free — both of which are divisions of Iliad — face a combined fine of €42 million from the national data protection authority, following a data breach. The Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés imposed a fine of €27 million on Free Mobile — and a fine of €15 million on Free — after finding they hadn't taken adequate measures to ensure the security of their subscribers' data. The fines follow a cyber attack in October 2024, when an attacker managed to infiltrate the companies' information system and access personal data relating to 24 million subscriber contracts.Full press release below and the decisions are attached....

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