this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2024
93 points (97.9% liked)

Cybersecurity

5853 readers
17 users here now

c/cybersecurity is a community centered on the cybersecurity and information security profession. You can come here to discuss news, post something interesting, or just chat with others.

THE RULES

Instance Rules

Community Rules

If you ask someone to hack your "friends" socials you're just going to get banned so don't do that.

Learn about hacking

Hack the Box

Try Hack Me

Pico Capture the flag

Other security-related communities !databreaches@lemmy.zip !netsec@lemmy.world !securitynews@infosec.pub !cybersecurity@infosec.pub !pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

Notable mention to !cybersecuritymemes@lemmy.world

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 8 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] donuts@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For these two breaches, the restricted committee decided to impose a sanction on ORANGE, which is composed of:

  • an administrative fine of 50 million euros, which was made public.
  • an order to stop reading cookies after the withdrawal of consent by the person concerned, within three months, with a fine of 100,000 euros per day overdue.

Not bad.

The ads looked like this (artistic render!):

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How long has this been going on, and how much money have they made?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I would additionally like to see fines be in units of revenue


$50M means wildly different things to different organizations.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

The amount of this fine was decided on the basis of the very high number of people concerned (over 7.8 million people having seen the advertisements in question in their inboxes), as well as the company's market position as France's leading telecommunications operator. The restricted committee also took into account the financial advantage derived from the breach relating to advertisements inserted among emails.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

They just can't help themselves.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

Good, but a fine seems like they got off easy. Someone made the decision. Where are their consequences?

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

For context:

In 2023, the telecommunications company Orange generated around 17.73 billion euros in revenue in France. The revenue of Orange in the European country has fluctuated over recent years and peaked at around 18.5 billion euros in 2020.

source

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Beats u.solicited dick pics I guess.