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France covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to France, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
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Air France and KLM have informed Flying Blue customers that some of their personal information was exposed after their accounts were breached. [...]
France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Apple €8,000,000 ($8.5M) for collecting user data for targeted advertising on the App Store without requesting or securing the user's consent. [...]
A cybercrime group dubbed Bluebottle has been linked to a set of targeted attacks against the financial sector in Francophone countries located in Africa from at least July 2022 to September 2022
A signed Windows driver has been used in attacks on banks in French-speaking countries, likely from a threat actor that stole more than $11 million from various banks. [...]