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File EU 2016/679 · 10

The data breach announced by email

The email announcing a data breach is not a courtesy, it is an article of a regulation. The 72 hours run towards the authority, the warning owes you plain language and specific content, and the complaint is lodged in your own country.

Item no. 1

18:06, a careful email

Three years of logging your runs in the same app: email address, routes, the times you leave the house. You live in Belgium, the service is established in another country of the Union.

At 18:06 an email arrives. It is signed, it is calm, and it says almost nothing.

Email received18:06

Subject: information regarding the security of your account.

We recently identified a security incident that may have affected some of our users' data. Our teams immediately reinforced our systems.

No action is required on your part. Thank you for your trust.

The security team

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