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French Electricity Provider Fined for Storing Users Passwords with Weak MD5 Algorithm

The French data protection watchdog on Tuesday fined electricity provider lectricit de France 600,000 for violating the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements. The Commission nationale de l’informatique et des liberts (CNIL)saidthe electric utility breached European regulation by storing the passwords for over 25,800 accounts by hashing them using theMD5