Italian regulator fines national postal service orgs $15 million for data privacy violations
2026-04-20T20:51:58Z•41a30df2049c23863d76dbcc6a4cae0890debfe23df4a0fb173cbaee3c2ae232
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What happened
Multiple security and privacy incidents reported: Italy’s data protection authority fined Poste Italiane €6.6M and its payments arm Postepay €5.9M for illegal processing of millions of users’ personal data. A nearly $290M crypto theft has been attributed to North Korea-linked hackers, impacting multiple platforms. French authorities said a cyberattack on an identity document/driver’s license site may have exposed citizens’ personal data. Elon Musk failed to attend a voluntary police interview in Paris regarding sexualized AI-generated images on X. The decentralized social network Bluesky cited
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