SFR have just sent an email advising that they’ve suffered a data breach that has potentially given unauthorised access to the following customer data:-
Surname
Name
Email address
Postal address
Contact phone number
Bank details are apparently not affected.
SFR are firmly ensconced in my “never to be touched with a bargepole” mental pigeon hole
The problem with blacklisting companies that you dislike/have had a bad experience with is that, these days, you quickly find that you have blacklisted everyone.
Very true, Billy. Especially with mergers going on.
Welcome to my life. I live in dread of our local Super U pissing off OH as we would then have no acceptable supermarket. Even the Christmas ad hasn’t changed opinions of Intermarché.
I have been mentally backlisting companies for so long now, I have forgotten why for many of them. (but NOT SFR)
Useless ‘insert expletive here’ 
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I think there should be severe penalties for companies that suffer data breeches. Their skimping on security puts us at risk.
There’s the ability for the CNIL to do so under GDPR but I don’t think they go far enough (much like the ICO back in Blighty).
Here are some recent sanctions…
The problem I have with monetary fines is that eventually they’re just passed on to customers. I think having custodial sentences for company directors (as per Sarbanes Oxley régulations) would be more effective.
That is the most wonderful sentence. I haven’t a clue what it means. 
There was a (brief) time in my working life when I thought I understood technology.
Isn’t that just reporting regulations though ? As long as you report it correctly, then SO regs are satisfied ? I’d be surprised if many company directors in the US were prosecuted under SO regs.
Yes, appreciate it’s not really a like-for-like comparison. It was more a comment that the penalties for non-compliance with GDPR only being financial means the bigwigs aren’t personally affected. They do a risk / reward calculation, but the risk isn’t on their shoulders - it’s on their customers’.
Which proves my point (maybe?) 
Breach du jour - this time its Mondial Relay
I’ve also had an email from the gouv lot that give a sports voucher to kids, not actually read it all but yes a breach today from them.
Is there anybody that hasn’t leaked our data? Hello? Hellooooo?
The only ones who confess, seem to do so late and only when they’ve been caught red-handed.
It seems as though sufficient punishment is simply not being applied even though we all thought there were laws that should ensure this.
All you ever hear is companies having a data breach,latest one that i heard was Marks and Spencer,the latest trend in the UK is that these companies are offering their customers financial compensation,i wonder if companies here in France will do the same…..yeah right,they will probably charge you more!
This time it’s the data of 1.2m French taxpayers bank account details, even including their tax IDs (numeros fiscales). This article, describing the latest hack, suggests that unlike France’s neighbours, the UK and Germany, its highly centralised government makes it more vulnerable to hacking.
Those caught up in the latest hack can expect to be contacted individually by the government..
Link to France24
Yep.. I was concerned to read that the other day… yet another breach… and still we are told we must put everything online… aaaargh.
Or “in the cloud” - such a lovely fluffy thing.
Not.
There will possibly be another glut of spam emails now, purporting to be from the gov… and catching the unwary/panic-stricken… aaargh.