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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 718 cases from 32 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.

1case from 1 jurisdiction
€1.12mTotal of monetary amounts
€1.12mMedian per case with an amount

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7 May 2026 South Staffordshire Plc und South Staffordshire Water PlcICO: almost £1 million against water supplier South Staffordshire after cyber attack United KingdomData breaches and data security €1.12m

In 2020, malware entered the water supplier's network via a phishing e-mail and remained undetected for around 20 months; in 2022, attackers obtained administrator rights and stole data on 633,887 people, which ended up on the dark web. The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) criticised, among other things, monitoring of only 5% of the IT environment, outdated software such as Windows Server 2003 and a lack of vulnerability and patch management.

What organisations can take from it

Utilities in critical infrastructure must also monitor their entire IT estate and replace legacy systems – an attack must not only come to light through performance problems.

Relevance to training and awareness

Recognising phishing

Authority / court
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
Area of law
Data protection · Data breaches and data security
Legal basis
UK GDPR Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. f, Art. 32 Abs. 1
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Energy and utilities
Culpability
negligent
Mitigating circumstances
40% reduction for early admission of liability; payment agreed without appeal.
Published
11 May 2026

Original amount 963,900 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 7 May 2026.

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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