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Who was sanctioned, and for what?

Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 756 cases from 32 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.

1case from 1 jurisdiction
€42mTotal of monetary amounts
€42mLargest single case: Free Mobile SAS und Free SAS
€42mMedian per case with an amount

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1 case

8 Jan 2026 Free Mobile SAS und Free SASCNIL: 42 million EUR against Free Mobile and Free after data leak affecting 24 million contracts FranceData breaches and data security €42m

Following an attack in October 2024 in which data relating to around 24 million customer contracts, including IBANs, was exfiltrated, the French data protection authority (CNIL) imposed 27 million EUR on Free Mobile and 15 million EUR on Free (42 million EUR in total). The authority objected to VPN access without adequate authentication, deficient detection of suspicious access, incomplete notification of data subjects and, at Free Mobile, excessively long retention of old contracts; orders with deadlines were also issued.

What organisations can take from it

Put remote access such as VPN behind multi-factor authentication, and consistently delete legacy data from terminated contracts.

Authority / court
Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL)
Area of law
Data protection · Data breaches and data security
Legal basis
Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. e, Art. 32, Art. 34 DSGVO
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Telecoms, IT and software
Mitigating circumstances
During the proceedings, the companies introduced multi-factor authentication, a Security Operations Centre and improved logging.
Published
14 Jan 2026

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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