Italy fines Wind Tre €1.7m after data breach exposed 365,000 customers
· 21h ago · Originally reported by PPC Land
Italy's data protection authority fined telecom operator Wind Tre €1.7 million over security failures that exposed data on roughly 365,000 customers. Payment details for 41,359 customers were leaked following fake tech-support calls and around 2 million API requests. Wind Tre has 30 days to report how it closed the gaps.
Why it matters
The case shows regulators penalizing telecoms for weak API and call-center security, and highlights how social engineering plus automated requests can be combined to harvest payment data at scale.
Explain it like I’m new here
Scammers pretended to be tech support and hammered the company's digital doors with millions of automated requests until customer payment details slipped out, and the regulator fined the company for not locking those doors.
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