Regulation & enforcement

French hospital fined €500,000 after breach exposes data of 727,000

Published September 3, 2026 · Bleeping Computer

The French privacy regulator CNIL issued a €500,000 penalty against a private hospital in the Loire region for insufficient safeguards around patient data. The security failure led to the exposure of personal information belonging to roughly 727,000 patients and their family members.

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