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Free Mobile, one of France’s main cellular providers, was fined €27 million by France’s data protection regulator, the CNIL, in January over failures to protect customer data. The October 2024 breach allowed an unauthorized party to access sensitive customer records, including bank account details and login information. Since the breach, we’ve seen many poorly written…

Abbott Laboratories is the latest household-name healthcare company to learn that a single phone call can undo years of security investment. On August 7, 2026, The Register reported that the extortion group ShinyHunters had dumped data stolen from Abbott’s Cancer Diagnostics business, after the company apparently declined to pay a ransom. The leak, according to…