Privacy watchdog fines Wind Tre €1.7 million

Italy's privacy watchdog on Thursday

fined telecoms company Wind Tre more than €1.7 million for

"serious security deficiencies in its company systems".

The Italian Data Protection Authority fined Wind Tre Spa

€1,715,600 for the alleged deficiencies, which resulted in two

unauthorized accesses and the exfiltration (unauthorized

extraction of data from a computer system) of the personal data

of over 365,000 customers.

For 41,359 of them, the exfiltration also involved information

related to payment methods used, such as postal payment slips,

IBANs, and credit cards with partially obscured numbers and

expiration dates.

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