Greek DPA issues multi-million euro fines against largest cell provider

The Hellenic Data Protection Authority fined Cosmote and OTE, Cosmote's network provider, 6 million euros and 3.25 million euros, respectively, for their roles in a data breach. The HDPA found the breach involved customer call data stored on a Cosmote server that was moved to an IP address of a hosting provider in Lithuania. The investigation further revealed an OTE website was hacked from the same IP address by a user who gained administrative access. The hacker ran queries on Cosmote's data system and exported the file with caller data.