Italian regulator fines national postal service orgs $15 million for data privacy violations
2026-04-21T08:51:53Z•8fab02feab393ce79bc26a455f2c23c625b0ace61b7c37c96cb9ed0e2906356c
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What happened
Multiple security and privacy incidents reported on 20 Apr 2026: The Italian data protection authority fined Poste Italiane €6.6M and its payments arm Postepay €5.9M for allegedly illegally processing millions of users’ personal data. A crypto infrastructure firm attributed a near-$290M theft to North Korean-linked hackers, impacting multiple platforms. French authorities reported a cyberattack against an identity document/driver’s license website that may have exposed personal data. Separately, Bluesky suffered a ‘sophisticated’ DDoS causing app outages, and Elon Musk was summoned (but didnot
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