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Italy fines WINDTRE €1.7 million over security flaws behind two data breaches
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Fusion42 · 20 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Italy's data protection authority fined WINDTRE €1.7 million for security failures that enabled two separate data breaches affecting 365,000 customers. The regulator found critical gaps in certificate handling, API protection, and credential management that allowed social engineering attacks to scale across store systems.
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If you're a SaaS platform or telecom handling customer data in Europe, the regulator just set the bar for API and certificate security: unprotected secondary APIs and unencrypted keys are now €1.7m+ violations. Audit your internal APIs and key management this week—GDPR enforcement is getting granular on infrastructure, not just process.
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