French Agency Fines Housing Association for Data Breach

A group that provides housing to students, single-parent families and migrant works in France must pay a €75,000 fine for a data breach that exposed applicants’ personal sensitive information.

France’s data protection agency, Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés—the National Commission on Informatics and Liberty—said June 28 that it levied the fine on the Association for the Development of Homes.

A “security incident” opened access to nearly 43,000 documents on the housing group’s website, the commission said in an English-language statement. The breach gave open access to tax notices, passports, identity cards, residence permits and pay slips, among ...