Bouygues: the CNIL fines Bouygues Telecom
(CercleFinance.com) - The CNIL (the French data protection service) announced a sanction of 250,000 euros against Bouygues Telecom for “having insufficiently protected the data of the clients of B&You.
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A security defect in fact impacted the data of more than two million clients for more than two years, with contracts and invoices accessible by the modification of a URL address on the operator's web site.
“The security defect resulted from forgetting, after a test phase, to reactivate the authentication function on the site for the client space, which had been deactivated solely for the purpose of these tests.”
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A security defect in fact impacted the data of more than two million clients for more than two years, with contracts and invoices accessible by the modification of a URL address on the operator's web site.
“The security defect resulted from forgetting, after a test phase, to reactivate the authentication function on the site for the client space, which had been deactivated solely for the purpose of these tests.”
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