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France Travail fined €5 million for failing to protect job seeker data

France data protection authority CNIL has fined public employment agency France Travail €5 million for failing to ensure the security of personal data of job seekers. Attackers gained access to the organization’s systems through social engineering techniques that targeted accounts used by staff at Cap emploi, a partner organization. The investigation found that attackers accessed data linked to current registrants, former registrants from the pa…

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After the massive cyberattack of March 2024, which exposed the personal data of millions of users, the National Commission of Computer Science and Freedoms imposed a heavy financial penalty on France Travail. The public institution acknowledges its responsibility.

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CNIL justifies its sanction by a clear lack of security measures, allowing hackers to steal the personal data of 36.8 million unemployed.

·Paris, France
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The procedure launched by CNIL follows a large-scale cyberattack against the public operator in March 2024, which caused the leak of data from 36 million people.

·Paris, France
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France Travail is sanctioned for leaking personal data from 36.8 million users in March 2024, revealing security flaws and poor authentication practices in France

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The CNIL has sanctioned Intersport with a fine of 3.5 million euros for the transmission of customer data without consent, but without publicly revealing the name of the brand. This anonymisation raises questions of fairness, while Free and France Travail have been named in their respective sanctions.

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KultureGeek.fr broke the news in on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
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