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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 756 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.
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What for?
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by company- France Travail €5m 68 % · 1 case
- Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) €898,979 12 % · 1 case
- Health Service Executive (HSE) €645,000 9 % · 1 case
- Department of Social Protection (DSP) €550,000 7 % · 1 case
- Stichting Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen (HAN University of Applied Sciences) €175,000 2 % · 1 case
- Hvidovre Kommune €26,803 0 % · 1 case
- Comune di Curtarolo €15,000 0 % · 1 case
- Αρχηγείο Πυροσβεστικού Σώματος (Hauptquartier der griechischen Feuerwehr) €10,000 0 % · 1 case
- Užimtumo tarnyba prie Lietuvos Respublikos socialinės apsaugos ir darbo ministerijos €9,000 0 % · 1 case
- Vilniaus rajono savivaldybės administracija €9,000 0 % · 1 case
- 6 more€8,000
When?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2023 | 1 | — |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2024 | 1 | €26,803 |
| Q3 2024 | 1 | €898,979 |
| Q4 2024 | 2 | €9,000 |
| Q1 2025 | 1 | €9,000 |
| Q2 2025 | 1 | €550,000 |
| Q3 2025 | 1 | — |
| Q4 2025 | 2 | €190,000 |
| Q1 2026 | 2 | €5.01m |
| Q2 2026 | 1 | — |
| Q3 2026 | 3 | €653,000 |
16 cases
22 Jan 2026 France TravailCNIL: 5 million EUR against France Travail after social engineering attack €5m
In early 2024, attackers used social engineering to take over accounts of Cap Emploi advisers and accessed data on jobseekers from the last 20 years, including social security numbers. The French data protection authority (CNIL) criticised weak authentication, insufficient logging and overly broad access rights, and imposed 5 million EUR together with an order carrying a penalty payment of 5,000 EUR per day of delay.
Accounts of external partners with extensive data access need strong authentication, narrow rights and anomaly detection – and their users need training against social engineering.
Social engineering and account takeover
- Authority / court
- Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- Art. 32 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Public sector
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 29 Jan 2026
- Violation de données : sanction de 5 millions d'euros à l'encontre de FRANCE TRAVAIL Press release of an authority
- CNIL – Les sanctions prononcées par la CNIL (Eintrag 22/01/2026) Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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3 Sep 2026 ASIS – Azienda Speciale per la gestione degli Impianti Sportivi (Trento)Garante: 8,000 EUR for cameras in swimming pool changing rooms of a Trentino sports operator €8,000
Since 2007, the municipal sports facilities operator had had cameras in the changing rooms of a swimming pool that recorded the locker area. The Italian data protection authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) found no sound legal basis, incomplete notices and a 72-hour retention period not justified by a necessity assessment, and imposed 8,000 EUR (Provvedimento No. 619); the cameras were removed during the proceedings.
Changing rooms and comparably intimate areas are off limits for video surveillance – even when theft prevention is the motive.
- Authority / court
- Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
- Area of law
- Data protection · Video surveillance
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. c und e DSGVO; Art. 2-ter Codice privacy
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Public sector
- Published
- 11 Sep 2026
- Newsletter del 11 settembre 2026 – Garante privacy Press release of an authority
- Garante – Provvedimento n. 619 del 3 settembre 2026 [10294255] (ASIS Trento) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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25 Aug 2026 Health Service Executive (HSE)Irish health service HSE: 645,000 EUR for neglected paper patient records €645,000
In 2023, intruders gained access to two former psychiatric hospitals and posted videos of the patient records stored there online. An inspection of twelve sites found records with mould, water and animal damage in unsuitable rooms, up to and including shipping containers. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) imposed a fine of 645,000 EUR, issued a reprimand and ordered audits and the relocation of records.
Data protection also applies to paper archives in disused buildings – retention requires an inventory, erasure periods and physical security.
Physical security and retention of paper records
- Authority / court
- Data Protection Commission (DPC)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. e und f, 32 Abs. 1, 33 Abs. 1, 34 Abs. 1
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Public sector
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 2 Sep 2026
- Data Protection Commission announces Final Decision following Inquiry into the Health Service Executive (HSE) Press release of an authority
- EDPB – DPC announces Final Decision following Inquiry into the HSE Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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27 Jul 2026 Metropolitan Police ServiceICO: order and reprimand against London's Met Police after disclosure of sensitive data Order
The Metropolitan Police handed a defendant unredacted documents containing the new address and telephone number of a stalking victim, and in a circular e-mail disclosed 18 people with a parliamentary connection in an open recipient list. The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ordered improvements within 3 and 12 months, including in data protection training completion rates.
Policies are not enough if mandatory training goes uncompleted for years – monitor and enforce training completion rates.
Redacting documents, e-mail distribution lists (BCC), data protection training
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- Data Protection Act 2018, Section 40
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Public sector
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Culpability
- negligent
- Published
- 5 Aug 2026
- Metropolitan Police Service issued with enforcement notice and reprimand following data protection failures Press release of an authority
- ICO Enforcement notice: Metropolitan Police Service Enforcement database of an authority
- ICO Reprimand: Metropolitan Police Service Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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7 May 2026 Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)Privacy Commissioner: Canada's tax authority CRA must strengthen protection against account takeovers Other
Since 2020, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has experienced more than 42,000 individual breaches in which unauthorised persons accessed tax accounts or changed data in order to redirect benefits. In a special report to Parliament, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada criticised, among other things, the delayed introduction of mandatory MFA and incomplete incident recording, and made nine recommendations, eight of which were accepted in full and one in part.
Online accounts with payment functions need mandatory strong authentication and complete recording of incidents.
- Authority / court
- Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- Privacy Act (Kanada)
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Public sector
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 7 May 2026
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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8 Jan 2026 Αρχηγείο Πυροσβεστικού Σώματος (Hauptquartier der griechischen Feuerwehr)Greece: 10,000 EUR against Fire Service Headquarters over health data in duty log €10,000
In a daily orders book of a fire service unit that was accessible to staff, not only the transfer of a female officer to light duties was recorded, but also her illness, the treatment and the medication prescribed. The Αρχή Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα (Hellenic Data Protection Authority) found a breach of lawfulness and data minimisation and, by Decision 1/2026, imposed a fine of 10,000 EUR on the Fire Service Headquarters.
Employees’ health information never belongs in generally accessible official records – the reason for an absence generally does not need to be disclosed.
Confidential handling of employees’ health data
- Authority / court
- Αρχή Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα (Hellenic Data Protection Authority)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Employee data
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a und c DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Public sector
- Απόφαση 1/2026 της Αρχής Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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15 Dec 2025 Stichting Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen (HAN University of Applied Sciences)Netherlands: 175,000 EUR against HAN university over inadequate security after hack €175,000
In 2021, a hacker gained access via a web form to a web server and a database server of the university, obtained, among other things, names with passwords and citizen service numbers of students and staff, and unsuccessfully demanded a ransom. According to the Dutch data protection authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, AP), security was not aligned with the risks, and the rights of a database account were not restricted.
Give database accounts of web applications minimal rights so that a single vulnerability does not expose the entire data set.
- Authority / court
- Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 32
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Public sector
- Culpability
- negligent
- Mitigating circumstances
- Settlement without objection; active damage limitation, strengthened resilience and sharing of lessons learned with other organisations.
- Published
- 17 Dec 2025
- HAN krijgt boete van 175.000 euro voor onvoldoende beveiliging van persoonsgegevens Press release of an authority
- Boete HAN Decision of an authority
- AP: Besluit tot oplegging van een bestuurlijke boete aan Stichting Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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23 Oct 2025 Comune di CurtaroloMunicipality of Curtarolo: 15,000 EUR for video surveillance of streets and employees €15,000
The municipality in the province of Padua monitored public streets and work areas without a sound legal basis, without adequate information and without a data protection impact assessment; recordings were used for disciplinary purposes, and an employee was secretly filmed while on sick leave. Italy's data protection authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) imposed a fine of 15,000 EUR (5,000 EUR for public surveillance, 10,000 EUR for workplace surveillance).
Do not repurpose video recordings for disciplinary proceedings; specific employment law protections apply to employees.
Purpose limitation in video surveillance and employee data
- Authority / court
- Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
- Area of law
- Data protection · Video surveillance
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 5, 6, 12, 13, 35, 88
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Public sector
- Provvedimento del 23 ottobre 2025 [10196164] Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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4 Sep 2025 Einheitlicher Abwicklungsausschuss (Single Resolution Board, SRB)CJEU: pseudonymised data in disclosure to Deloitte – EDPS v SRB —
The Single Resolution Board (SRB) passed on pseudonymised comments from former Banco Popular shareholders to Deloitte without informing the data subjects; the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) considered this an infringement of the duty to inform. The Court of Justice of the European Union (Case C-413/23 P) set aside the judgment of the General Court and clarified that the duty to inform is to be assessed from the controller's perspective at the time of collection; the case was referred back to the General Court.
Pseudonymisation does not release the controller from informing data subjects about the recipients of their data.
- Authority / court
- Gerichtshof der Europäischen Union, Rs. C-413/23 P
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- Verordnung (EU) 2018/1725 (Informationspflicht)
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Public sector
- Published
- 4 Sep 2025
- Press Release No 107/25: Judgment of the Court in Case C-413/23 P EDPS v SRB Court press release
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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12 Jun 2025 Department of Social Protection (DSP)DPC: 550,000 EUR against Irish social protection ministry over facial matching without legal basis €550,000
For registration for the Public Services Card, the ministry created biometric facial templates of a large part of the population without a sufficiently clear legal basis, with deficient information and an incomplete data protection impact assessment. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) issued a reprimand, imposed 550,000 EUR and ordered the biometric processing to be stopped within nine months if no valid legal basis is found.
Biometric procedures require a precise statutory basis and a complete impact assessment before they are rolled out widely.
- Authority / court
- Data Protection Commission (DPC)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a und e, Art. 6 Abs. 1, Art. 9 Abs. 1, Art. 13, Art. 35 Abs. 7 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Public sector
- Mitigating circumstances
- No deficiencies were found in the technical and organisational security measures.
- Published
- 12 Jun 2025
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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21 Jan 2025 Užimtumo tarnyba prie Lietuvos Respublikos socialinės apsaugos ir darbo ministerijosEmployment service sends Excel file with data of 29,636 clients – 9,000 EUR €9,000
An employee accidentally attached an Excel file containing data of 29,636 clients, including health data, to an e-mail sent to 292 clients. The Valstybinė duomenų apsaugos inspekcija (Lithuanian State Data Protection Inspectorate, VDAI) found that measures to prevent data leakage had not been sufficiently tested and that the employee had not been involved in data classification and had been insufficiently instructed; fine of 9,000 EUR. Date = publication; source: archived copy.
One wrong attachment is enough for a mass data breach – DLP tools only help if all employees are trained and involved.
Checking e-mail attachments, data classification
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Valstybinė duomenų apsaugos inspekcija (VDAI)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. f, Art. 24 Abs. 1, Art. 32 Abs. 1 lit. b und d DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Public sector
- Published
- 21 Jan 2025
- VDAI, Užimtumo tarnybai skirta bauda, 2025-01-21 (Archivkopie web.archive.org von vdai.lrv.lt) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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27 Nov 2024 Lyngby-Taarbæk KommuneLyngby-Taarbæk: police report with proposed fine over missing MFA and legacy accounts Other
At least 1,000 former employees retained access after leaving to the KMD Nexus specialist system containing data on around 30,000 citizens; one former employee viewed 1,022 citizen records. In addition, an unauthorised person used an employee's login credentials for Office services containing information on around 5,000 people – both systems had been accessible from the internet for years without multi-factor authentication. The Danish data protection authority (Datatilsynet) reported the municipality to the police and proposed a fine of 350,000 to 400,000 DKK; the case is still pending before the courts, and no fine has been imposed so far.
Revoke access immediately when employees leave, and protect remote access with multi-factor authentication.
Offboarding, access rights and multi-factor authentication
- Authority / court
- Datatilsynet
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. f, Art. 32
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Public sector
- Published
- 27 Nov 2024
- Datatilsynet anmelder Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune til politiet Decision of an authority
- Datatilsynet: Bødesager (Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune unter „Sager, der fortsat verserer“) Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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18 Oct 2024 Vilniaus rajono savivaldybės administracijaRansomware attack on Vilnius district administration – data protection fine of 9,000 EUR €9,000
Following a break-in into the district administration’s servers in which data were encrypted, services failed and social benefits were delayed. The Valstybinė duomenų apsaugos inspekcija (Lithuanian State Data Protection Inspectorate, VDAI) found insufficient malware protection, deficient management of rights and passwords, a lack of recovery and insufficient information of data subjects and imposed 9,000 EUR. Date = publication; source: archived copy.
Backups, patch management and password rules are a data protection duty for public authorities too – and data subjects must receive specific advice on protecting themselves.
Password security, ransomware preparedness
- Authority / court
- Valstybinė duomenų apsaugos inspekcija (VDAI)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. f, Art. 32 Abs. 1 lit. b, c und d, Art. 34 Abs. 2 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Public sector
- Published
- 18 Oct 2024
- VDAI, Vilniaus rajono savivaldybės administracijai skirta bauda, 2024-10-18 (Archivkopie web.archive.org) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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26 Sep 2024 Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)ICO: £750,000 against Northern Ireland police after spreadsheet error in FOI response €898,979
In its response to a freedom of information request, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) published an Excel file whose hidden worksheet contained the surnames, initials, rank and role of all 9,483 employees. The file was visible for just over two hours and was deleted after almost three hours; the police assumed that it had fallen into the hands of dissident republicans.
Before releasing any file, check for hidden sheets, metadata and raw data – a four-eyes approval process prevents such breaches.
Checking files before publication (hidden worksheets)
- 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 und 2
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Public sector
- Employees
- 1,000 to 9,999
- Culpability
- negligent
- Mitigating circumstances
- Application of the public sector approach; without it, the fine would have been £5.6 million.
- Published
- 3 Oct 2024
Original amount 750,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 26 Sep 2024.
- What price privacy? Poor PSNI procedures culminate in £750k fine Press release of an authority
- ICO Enforcement: Police Service of Northern Ireland Enforcement database of an authority
- ICO Penalty Notice: Police Service of Northern Ireland Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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27 May 2024 Hvidovre KommuneHvidovre Kommune: 200,000 DKK after disclosing protected addresses of children to parents €26,803
Following a system change, both parents with custody gained access to letters from the municipal dental care service and automatically received letters containing, in some cases, protected addresses of the children – without any check as to whether the disclosure was permissible. The Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet) criticised the lack of change management; the municipality accepted a fine notice of 200,000 DKK.
Whenever access rights or automated mailing processes are changed, check in advance who will see which data afterwards.
Change management for IT systems holding sensitive data
- Authority / court
- Anklagemyndigheden (Bødeforelæg) auf Anzeige der Datatilsynet
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 32
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Public sector
Original amount 200,000 DKK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 27 May 2024.
- Datatilsynet – Hvidovre Kommune indstilles til bøde (Opdatering: afgjort 27. maj 2024) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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14 Dec 2023 Natsionalna agentsia za prihodite (NAP, bulgarische Steuerbehörde)CJEU: after hacker attack, Bulgaria's tax authority must prove adequate security —
Following a cyber attack in 2019, data on millions of people from the IT system of the Bulgarian tax authority (Natsionalna agentsia za prihodite, NAP) was published on the internet. The Court of Justice of the European Union (Case C-340/21) ruled that the controller must prove the adequacy of its protective measures, can be liable even for attacks by third parties, and that the mere fear of misuse of data can constitute non-material damage.
After an attack, the company bears the burden of proving adequate security – documenting the measures protects against liability.
- Authority / court
- Gerichtshof der Europäischen Union, Rs. C-340/21
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 24, Art. 32, Art. 82
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Public sector
- Published
- 14 Dec 2023
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link