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France Travail faces €5m French privacy fine after record data breach

By Matthew Newman and Charlotte Westphal ( January 29, 2026, 13:05 GMT | Insight) -- France Travail has been fined €5 million ($6 million) for violating EU data protection rules and not doing enough to prevent one of France's biggest ever personal data breaches. The state employment agency was hit by cyberattacks in 2024 and 2025 which resulted in the leaking of personal details of some 36.8 million people.State employment agency France Travail has been fined €5 million ($6 million) for violations of EU data protection rules after cyberattacks in 2024 and 2025 led to one of the country's largest ever personal data leaks involving the details of some 36.8 million people....

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