Cosmote, parent company OTE fined $10.6M under GDPR
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Neil Hodge2022-02-08T18:13:00
The Hellenic Data Protection Authority fined mobile phone operator Cosmote and its parent company OTE a total of €9.25 million (U.S. $10.6 million) for a data breach caused by a September 2020 cyberattack and for illegally processing customer data.
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