Who was sanctioned, and for what?

The provider of web-based systems for sickness reporting, rehabilitation and occupational safety incidents was hacked in August 2025; the stolen personal data appeared on the dark web shortly afterwards. The Swedish data protection authority (Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten, IMY) found that, despite the high need for protection, there were no adequate security measures and no automatic real-time monitoring for attacks, assessed this as negligent and imposed 1,800,000 SEK.

Authority / court

Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Art. 32 Abs. 1 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Culpability

negligent

Published

22 Sep 2026

Original amount 1,800,000 SEK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 Sep 2026.

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

According to the sanctions disclosure of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS, Korea's financial supervisor), the online lending platform PFC Technologies transferred the resident registration numbers of 8,497 customers to a third party without their consent on 28 September 2022 in order to calculate the error rate of a new service for mortgage customers, and received credit information on the same customers from that third party, likewise without consent (such as the address and official value of their properties); in addition, when the inspection began it had not implemented password rules against easily guessed numbers. The sanction of 17 September 2026 comprises an institutional warning, an administrative fine (과태료) of KRW 24 million and a penalty surcharge (과징금) of KRW 49 million, KRW 73 million in total.

Authority / court

Financial Supervisory Service (FSS)

Area of law

Data protection

Legal basis

Art. 19, 32 und 34 Credit Information Use and Protection Act; Art. 16, 28 und 29 Durchführungsverordnung

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Financial services and insurance

Liability of senior managers

Measures against individuals are not set out here.

Published

17 Sep 2026

Original amount 73,000,000 KRW, converted at the ECB reference rate of 17 Sep 2026.

Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link

For seven months (October 2025 to May 2026), the bank continued to send a customer advertising via its app, although he had objected several times. The Italian data protection authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) also found deficient systems for implementing objections and inaccurate information about the processing, and imposed 5,508,000 EUR (Provvedimento No. 613).

Authority / court

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, Art. 12, 21, 24 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Financial services and insurance

Published

11 Sep 2026

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

Hospital staff opened a colleague's electronic health record to organise duty rosters during Covid rather than for treatment purposes. Technical barriers limiting access to treating staff were lacking; the Italian data protection authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) imposed 24,000 EUR (Provvedimento No. 616).

Authority / court

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali

Area of law

Data protection · Employee data

Legal basis

Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, b, c, f, Art. 9, 25, 32 DSGVO; Art. 75 Codice privacy; Linee guida dossier sanitario

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Healthcare

Published

11 Sep 2026

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

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.

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

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

Using credentials stolen elsewhere, attackers logged in en masse on the websites of GS SHOP (June 2024 to February 2025) and GS25 (December 2024 to January 2025) and obtained data on 1,581,025 and 79,128 people respectively; GS Retail Co., Ltd. detected neither the bursts of login attempts from the same IP addresses nor the rising number of failed attempts, and after the first discovery at GS25 did not stop the parallel attack on GS SHOP. The authority also found an inadequate data protection organisation and that 1,599 further people were notified more than 72 hours late, imposed a penalty surcharge of 12,836,000,000 KRW and an administrative fine of 3,000,000 KRW (12,839,000,000 KRW in total) and ordered detection measures and a review of the data protection organisation.

Authority / court

Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC, 개인정보보호위원회)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Personal Information Protection Act (개인정보 보호법) Art. 29, Art. 34(1); Sanktion nach Art. 64-2(1) Nr. 9

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Culpability

negligent

Mitigating circumstances

Reduction of 30% because no benefit was derived and 40% for cooperation, remediation and protective efforts (ISMS-P certification, self-regulation, privacy impact assessment); increase of 50% because the infringement lasted more than two years.

Liability of senior managers

The company was ordered to deploy dedicated data protection staff and to define the powers and responsibility of its chief privacy officer (CPO) clearly.

Published

31 Aug 2026

Original amount 12,839,000,000 KRW, converted at the ECB reference rate of 26 Aug 2026.

Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link

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.

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

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

The Agência Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD, Brazilian data protection authority) imposed three fines totalling 153,769,671.33 BRL on ByteDance Brasil Tecnologia Ltda., which operates TikTok in Brazil (63,176,686.67 BRL each for breaches of Art. 7 and Art. 6 VIII LGPD, and 27,416,297.99 BRL for Art. 6 X LGPD). According to the decision, data of children and adolescents were processed without a valid legal basis both in the feed available without registration and when accounts were created, and effective preventive and accountability measures were lacking. The authority also ordered the deletion of data of registered adolescents aged 13 to 18 whose legal representation is not regularised within 60 working days, backed by a daily penalty of 137,081.49 BRL for each day of delay.

Authority / court

Agência Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD), Superintendência de Fiscalização

Area of law

Data protection

Legal basis

Art. 6 VIII, Art. 6 X und Art. 7 LGPD (Lei nº 13.709/2018); Sanktionen nach Art. 52 LGPD; Resolução CD/ANPD nº 4/2023 (Regulamento de Dosimetria)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Media and online platforms

Employees

10,000 or more

Published

25 Aug 2026

Original amount 153,769,671.33 BRL, converted at the ECB reference rate of 24 Aug 2026.

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

Attackers obtained the credentials of a user account with administrator rights through phishing and accessed customer data. The Romanian data protection authority (ANSPDCP) criticised the lack of technical and organisational measures and of regular effectiveness testing, imposed 15,728 lei (3,000 EUR) and ordered regular employee training, including on recognising phishing e-mails. Date = publication of the press release; according to the authority, the investigation was concluded in the previous month.

Authority / court

Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Art. 32 Abs. 1 lit. b und Abs. 2 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Other

Published

19 Aug 2026

Original amount 15,728 RON, converted at the ECB reference rate of 19 Aug 2026.

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

Through a software vulnerability in a mail platform developed by KDDI and provided to several internet service providers, unauthorised parties obtained the credentials (email address and password) of 12,231,954 people; 7,616,173 passwords were stored in plain text, so mailboxes could be read (discovered on 17 June 2026). The authority gave KDDI guidance (shidō) under Art. 147 APPI to improve its technical security measures because access controls against attackers spreading through the system had been inadequate, required a report by 19 October 2026 and also gave such guidance to individual providers responsible for the plain-text storage.

Authority / court

Personal Information Protection Commission (PPC, 個人情報保護委員会)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI, 個人情報の保護に関する法律) Art. 147, Art. 146 Abs. 1

Action

Reprimand or warning

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Employees

10,000 or more

Published

19 Aug 2026

Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link

Datatilsynet (Norwegian Data Protection Authority) fined the online dietary supplement retailer Lab Pharma AS NOK 205,000 for breaching its duty to cooperate with the supervisory authority (Art. 31 GDPR): the company had threatened case handlers with police reports and lawsuits in order to end the investigation of a complaint, and submitted requested documents late. The authority also ordered the company to delete the name and images of a former advertising partner (an influencer) from all its websites and to stop using her data for marketing until it can demonstrate a legal basis, as the underlying contract had already expired in March 2017.

Authority / court

Datatilsynet

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

Art. 31, Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. f, g und i, Art. 83 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Culpability

intentional

Liability of senior managers

Datatilsynet attributed the intentional conduct of the company's management to the company.

Published

17 Aug 2026

Original amount 205,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Aug 2026.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link

The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued a reprimand to ACRO Criminal Records Office. According to the ICO, it followed a cyber incident that may have affected the personal data of around 10,000 people in the UK. The ICO found infringements of the duty to implement appropriate technical and organisational security measures under Article 32 UK GDPR. No fine was imposed.

Authority / court

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Art. 32(1), 32(1)(b) und 32(1)(d) UK GDPR; Verwarnung nach Art. 58(2)(b) UK GDPR

Action

Reprimand or warning

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Public sector

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link

The ICO fined Elderly Aids Limited, a seller of call-blocking devices, £190,000 and also issued an enforcement notice. The ICO found that the company had made 758,053 unsolicited direct marketing calls to numbers registered with the TPS/CTPS whose subscribers had not agreed to such calls, leading to 20 complaints. The legal basis is regulations 21 and 24 of PECR. Under the notice, payment by 7 September 2026 reduces the amount by 20% to £152,000.

Authority / court

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

Regulations 21 und 24 PECR; section 55A DPA 1998 (Geldbuße), section 40 DPA 1998 (Anordnung)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Original amount 190,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 6 Aug 2026.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link

Following several complaints, the Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (Romanian data protection authority, ANSPDCP) found that current and former employees, untrained and without procedural rules, had access to extensive data (including health, family and income data), that data subjects were not informed under Art. 14 GDPR, that excessive data were collected and that automated advertising calls were made without consent. Fines: 78,465 lei (15,000 EUR, Art. 32(4)), 52,310 lei (10,000 EUR, Art. 14), 104,620 lei (20,000 EUR, Art. 5/9 GDPR) and 50,000 lei (Law 506/2004); in addition, an order to provide regular employee training. Date = publication of the press release; according to the authority, the investigation was concluded in June 2026.

Authority / court

Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP)

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. c i. V. m. Art. 9, Art. 14, Art. 32 Abs. 4 DSGVO; Art. 12 Abs. 1 Gesetz 506/2004

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Other

Published

6 Aug 2026

Original amount 285,395 RON, converted at the ECB reference rate of 6 Aug 2026.

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

Attackers copied certificates from lost femtocells of KT Corporation into home-made devices, stayed connected to the mobile network undetected for around eleven months, intercepted data on 16,647 subscribers (phone number, IMSI, IMEI) and used intercepted confirmation codes to trigger unauthorised mobile payments of around 240 million KRW affecting 368 people. For inadequate access control – certificates valid for ten years, no IP restriction, no detection of unknown cell IDs – the authority imposed a penalty surcharge of 53,979,000,000 KRW and ordered vulnerability checks and a stronger role for the chief privacy officer.

Authority / court

Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC, 개인정보보호위원회)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Personal Information Protection Act (개인정보 보호법) Art. 29, Sanktion nach Art. 64-2(1) Nr. 9; gesonderter Beschluss 제2026-015-094호: Art. 63(1)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Culpability

negligent

Mitigating circumstances

Reduction of 30% because no benefit was derived and a further 50% for cooperation, remediation, compensation of those affected and protective efforts; increase of 50% because the infringement lasted more than two years.

Liability of senior managers

The company was ordered to define the responsibility and role of its chief privacy officer (CPO) for the whole company clearly and to revise its governance.

Published

30 Jul 2026

Original amount 53,979,000,000 KRW, converted at the ECB reference rate of 29 Jul 2026.

Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link

A large-scale breach affected EETAA information systems used to implement programmes of the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family; identification, contact, financial and health data of a large number of people were affected. The Archi Prostasias Dedomenon (Hellenic Data Protection Authority) attributed the success of the attack to outdated systems and inadequate security measures and criticised the absence of a data processing agreement. In Decision 15/2026 it imposed a total of EUR 350,000 (ministry EUR 150,000 under Art. 5(1)(f)/Art. 32 and EUR 50,000 under Art. 28(3) GDPR; EETAA EUR 100,000 under Art. 32 and EUR 50,000 under Art. 28(3) GDPR) and ordered the agreement to be concluded and the planned security measures implemented within one month.

Authority / court

Αρχή Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα (Hellenic Data Protection Authority)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. f, Art. 28 Abs. 3, Art. 32 Abs. 1, Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. d und i DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Public sector

Mitigating circumstances

According to the authority, the ministry met its breach notification and communication obligations.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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.

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

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

The Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency) imposed fines totalling 34,327 EUR on a call centre that mainly marketed telecoms products: 32,000 EUR for unlawful telephone advertising and 2,327 EUR because consents to sales calls had not been fully documented. The campaign continued despite the gaps and requests to stop calling were sometimes ignored; the company has appealed.

Authority / court

Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA)

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

UWG – Verbot unerlaubter Telefonwerbung gegenüber Verbraucherinnen und Verbrauchern; § 7a UWG (Dokumentation und Aufbewahrung von Einwilligungen)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

under appeal

Sector

Other

Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link

The Garante (Italian data protection authority) fined TIM 9,516,000 EUR because call centres outside the official sales network made promotional calls on the company's behalf using numbers not recorded in the operators' register ROC or falsified numbers (spoofing), often to lines entered in the do-not-call register, and the contacts obtained in this way reached its systems as apparently lawful leads via fictitious call-back requests on sales partners' web forms. The authority found that TIM had selected and supervised its sales partners inadequately and had systematically failed to answer, or answered late, requests for access, erasure and objection. In addition, TIM must secure its lead process, strengthen oversight of the sales chain and adapt its procedures for data subject rights.

Authority / court

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

Art. 5, 6, 7, 12, 15–22, 24, 25, 28 und 32 DSGVO; Art. 130 Codice in materia di protezione dei dati personali (D.Lgs. 196/2003)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Employees

10,000 or more

Culpability

negligent

Repeat case

yes

Mitigating circumstances

Taken into account as mitigating: short period and limited number of data subjects, measures taken during the proceedings (including checks on and termination of contracts with partners), a high level of cooperation, no special categories of personal data, adherence to the telemarketing code of conduct and substantial investment in controlling the sales chain.

Published

31 Jul 2026

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link

In summer 2025, an attacker gained access to the private hospital's electronic patient record system and obtained data on 524,867 patients and 202,246 trusted persons. There was no VPN or multi-factor authentication for external users, no appropriate access control and no detection of suspicious activity; the trusted persons were not notified. France's data protection authority (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, CNIL) imposed a fine of 500,000 EUR (SAN-2026-009).

Authority / court

Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

DSGVO Art. 32, Art. 34

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Healthcare

Published

3 Sep 2026

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

The CNIL (French data protection authority) fined the IT and engineering consultancy EXTIA EUR 300,000 because, of 265 erasure requests received in 2024 – mostly from job applicants, occasionally from former employees – 12 were not processed at all and 166 applicants were not told of the outcome; 27 received their reply only after the one-month deadline. The CNIL regarded this as particularly negligent, especially as the company had already been reminded of its obligations by the CNIL twice in 2024 (Art. 12 and 17 GDPR).

Authority / court

Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), formation restreinte

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

Art. 12 und 17 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Employees

1,000 to 9,999

Culpability

negligent

Repeat case

yes

Mitigating circumstances

During the proceedings the company deleted the data concerned and informed the applicants retrospectively.

Published

9 Sep 2026

Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link

A synchronisation error between two applications allowed a customer to retrieve other customers’ invoices in the mobile app; in addition, the ticketing platform, which was publicly accessible without VPN, MFA or IP restriction, was attacked and a very large data set (including copies of identity documents, card data, IBANs) was exfiltrated. The Romanian data protection authority (ANSPDCP) imposed fines of 104,780 lei (20,000 EUR, Art. 25) and 419,120 lei (80,000 EUR, Art. 32), a total of 523,900 lei, and ordered test and change management. Date = publication of the press release; according to the authority, the investigation was concluded in the previous month.

Authority / court

Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Art. 25 Abs. 1, Art. 32 Abs. 1 lit. b und d, Abs. 2 und 4 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Published

17 Jul 2026

Original amount 523,900 RON, converted at the ECB reference rate of 17 Jul 2026.

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

From May to the end of August 2024, the public hospital accidentally published on its website a surgery list containing patients' telephone numbers, illnesses and planned procedures; a member of the public found the document via Google. The Hellenic Data Protection Authority imposed a total of 25,000 EUR: 10,000 EUR for inadequate security, 2,000 EUR for the late notification, 10,000 EUR for failing to notify the data subjects and 3,000 EUR for missing contact details of the data protection officer (DPO).

Authority / court

Αρχή Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα (Hellenic Data Protection Authority)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. f, 32 Abs. 1, 33 Abs. 1, 34 Abs. 1, 12, 13 i. V. m. 37 (Entscheidung 13/2026)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Healthcare

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

The data protection authority had prohibited a company from tracking its three company vehicles continuously by GPS and ordered the data to be erased; narrow purposes such as theft protection while parked remained permitted. The Upravno sodišče Republike Slovenije (Administrative Court of the Republic of Slovenia) upheld this and clarified that employee consent bundled with other declarations is invalid.

Authority / court

Upravno sodišče Republike Slovenije (bekanntgemacht durch den Informacijski pooblaščenec)

Area of law

Data protection · Employee data

Legal basis

Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f, Art. 7 Abs. 2 DSGVO

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Transport, logistics and shipping

Published

7 Jul 2026

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

The Garante (Italian data protection authority) fined the US operator of the generative AI service Character.AI, on which users – including minors – chat with virtual characters, 158,000 EUR, among other things for deficient privacy information, a data protection impact assessment prepared late and the late appointment of a representative in the EU. It also criticised weaknesses in the protection of minors and in age verification; within 120 days the company must ensure working age verification, an effective cooling-off period preventing blocked minors from re-registering and private-by-default profiles for minors.

Authority / court

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

Art. 5 Abs. 2, 12 Abs. 1, 13 Abs. 1 und 2, 14 Abs. 1 und 2, 24 Abs. 1, 25 Abs. 2, 27 Abs. 1 und 35 Abs. 1 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Culpability

negligent

Repeat case

no

Mitigating circumstances

Mitigating: progressively strengthened age checks (a dedicated service for minors, age verification by a third-party provider), no previous relevant infringements, cooperation and amendments to the privacy policy during the proceedings.

Published

9 Jul 2026

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link

At the request of a third party and outside the scope of his duties, a bank employee retrieved account statements of a data subject (name, IBAN, transactions, balances). The Romanian data protection authority (ANSPDCP) found insufficient technical and organisational measures and imposed 26,172 lei (5,000 EUR); the bank has paid the fine. Date = publication of the press release; according to the authority, the investigation was concluded in the previous month.

Authority / court

Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Art. 32 Abs. 1, 2 und 4 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Financial services and insurance

Published

2 Jul 2026

Original amount 26,172 RON, converted at the ECB reference rate of 2 Jul 2026.

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

In a targeted inspection of cookies on company websites, the Datu valsts inspekcija (Latvian Data State Inspectorate, DVI) found fault with the site 4mebeles.lv. After a reprimand in February 2026, the company claimed that the deficiencies had been remedied, which a further inspection disproved; further requests for information went unanswered. The DVI imposed 1,000 EUR for failure to cooperate and requested the missing information by 3 August 2026.

Authority / court

Datu valsts inspekcija (DVI)

Area of law

Data protection · Cookies and tracking

Legal basis

Art. 58 Abs. 1, Art. 83 Abs. 5 lit. e DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Culpability

intentional

Repeat case

yes

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

After almost four years of litigation, the federal district court for Idaho entered an order agreed between the FTC and the data broker Kochava. The FTC had alleged that Kochava sold precise location data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices without the knowledge and consent of the people concerned, revealing, for example, visits to health facilities and places of worship. Kochava and its subsidiary Collective Data Solutions, which has taken over the data broker business, may only share sensitive location data with affirmative consent and for services requested by the consumer, and must introduce, among other things, a sensitive-locations programme, checks on their data suppliers, disclosure of recipients and retention limits; no payment is provided for. The authority allegedly made the findings set out here; this account is not based on a final judgment.

Authority / court

U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho auf Klage der Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

Section 5 FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. § 45 (unlautere Praktiken); Verfahren nach Section 13(b), 15 U.S.C. § 53(b)

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Published

26 Jun 2026

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

The company had stored statistically calculated ‘party affinities’ for around 2.2 million people and in some cases sold them to advertising clients – special categories of personal data without consent; in addition, parcel frequency data was further processed for incompatible purposes. The Austrian Data Protection Authority (Datenschutzbehörde, DSB) had imposed 18 million EUR in 2019 and the Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht, BVwG) 16 million EUR in 2024; Austria's Supreme Administrative Court (Verwaltungsgerichtshof, VwGH) has now set the fine with final effect at 13 million EUR (plus 100,000 EUR in procedural costs).

Authority / court

Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Ausgangsbescheid: Datenschutzbehörde)

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a und b, Art. 6 Abs. 4, Art. 9 Abs. 1 (VwGH Ro 2025/04/0007)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

reduced

Sector

Other

Culpability

negligent

Mitigating circumstances

Comprehensive cooperation, deletion of the party affinities, settlements with data subjects, long duration of proceedings (5 years, 10 months).

Published

16 Jul 2026

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

The debt collection company posted personal data of alleged debtors on the internet, some of it particularly sensitive, in order to obtain information on their whereabouts and to warn third parties. The Swiss Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht, A-3891/2025) upheld the ruling of the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (EDÖB) of 28 April 2025, according to which this constitutes an unjustified violation of privacy.

Authority / court

Bundesverwaltungsgericht (A-3891/2025) auf Verfügung des EDÖB vom 28.04.2025

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

DSG Art. 6, Art. 19, Art. 31

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Financial services and insurance

Published

20 Aug 2026

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

The security services provider used cameras in vehicles through which personal data was processed without any legal basis for doing so. The Swedish data protection authority (Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten, IMY) issued a reprimand under Art. 58 GDPR; no fine was imposed.

Authority / court

Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY)

Area of law

Data protection · Video surveillance

Legal basis

DSGVO Art. 6 Abs. 1

Action

Reprimand or warning

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Defence and security

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

An employee of the service provider acting as processor for Kaufland România let a third party into a store’s video surveillance room; that person filmed the images and distributed them on social media. Kaufland reported the incident. The Romanian data protection authority (ANSPDCP) imposed 10,200 lei (2,000 EUR) on the processor and ordered additional checks of the work instructions; the fine has been paid. Date = publication of the press release; according to the authority, the investigation was concluded in April 2026.

Authority / court

Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP)

Area of law

Data protection · Video surveillance

Legal basis

Art. 29, Art. 32 Abs. 1 lit. b, Abs. 2 und 4 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Other

Published

15 Jun 2026

Original amount 10,200 RON, converted at the ECB reference rate of 15 Jun 2026.

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

The online retailer had not set a retention period for customer accounts and kept data until customers requested deletion; purchases were only possible with an account. The sanctions board of the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman imposed 856,000 EUR in 2024, the administrative court reduced the fine to 792,639 EUR on the basis of current turnover, and the Supreme Administrative Court (Korkein hallinto-oikeus, KHO) confirmed this on 12 June 2026.

Authority / court

Korkein hallinto-oikeus (KHO); Sanktionsgremium des Datenschutzbeauftragten

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. e DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

reduced

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Published

18 Jun 2026

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

A data subject complained about the disclosure of footage from the supermarket chain’s video surveillance and about the inadequate response to his access request. The Αρχή Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα (Hellenic Data Protection Authority) found that Market In had passed the video footage to the judicial authorities without informing the data subject beforehand, processed more data than necessary, failed to comply with the right of access and failed to cooperate with the authority, and by Decision 10/2026 imposed a total of 95,000 EUR (50,000 EUR for lawfulness/transparency, 20,000 EUR each for data minimisation and the right of access, 5,000 EUR for failure to cooperate); in the same proceedings, ΜΕΔΕ ΑΕ received 65,000 EUR.

Authority / court

Αρχή Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα (Hellenic Data Protection Authority)

Area of law

Data protection · Video surveillance

Legal basis

Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, c, Art. 5 Abs. 2, Art. 12, 13, 15, 31 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

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

Monash IVF collected sensitive information about visitors to its fertility treatment website through third-party tracking pixels. The Privacy Commissioner held that following the visitors of health-related websites and afterwards showing them targeted adverts on social networks amounts to collecting sensitive data, which requires consent, and found breaches of APP 3.3, 5.1, 5.2 and 7.1. Monash IVF must not continue or repeat the conduct and must implement specified remedial steps; a parallel determination against the telehealth provider Medmate Australia was made on the same day.

Authority / court

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)

Area of law

Data protection · Cookies and tracking

Legal basis

Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), APP 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Healthcare

Published

24 Jun 2026

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

A former employee used authentication signing keys that had been accessible to him in plain text during his employment and were neither renewed nor destroyed after he left to create forged tokens and, from April to November 2025, retrieve data on around 33.22 million customers and delivery data on around 4.33 million other people. For inadequate security measures the authority imposed a penalty surcharge of 423,575,000,000 KRW on Coupang Corp. and, for late notification and failure to delete, an administrative fine of 16,800,000 KRW (423,591,800,000 KRW in total) and criticised the exclusion of the chief privacy officer from the internal investigation. A separate decision on the same day imposed a further 201,106,000,000 KRW for collecting behavioural data on third-party websites and apps without consent.

Authority / court

Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC, 개인정보보호위원회)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Personal Information Protection Act (개인정보 보호법) Art. 29, Art. 34(1), Art. 21(1), Art. 31(6), Art. 63(2); Sanktion nach Art. 64-2(1) Nr. 9

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Culpability

negligent

Repeat case

yes

Mitigating circumstances

Reduction of 30% because no benefit was derived and 50% for remediation, compensation, certification and proportionality; increases of 25% (duration of the infringement), 30% (at least two previous penalties) and 10% (obstruction of the investigation).

Liability of senior managers

The chief privacy officer (CPO) was excluded from the internal investigation and publication; the company was ordered to set up governance that secures the CPO’s independent work and access to information in incidents.

Published

11 Jun 2026

Original amount 423,591,800,000 KRW, converted at the ECB reference rate of 10 Jun 2026.

Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link

In November 2018 attackers encrypted patient data in the laboratory information system of Midlands Regional Hospital Tullamore. The DPC found that the HSE had infringed Art. 5(1)(f), 28, 30, 32(1) and 34 GDPR (including insufficient security, deficient processor contracts and record of processing, and incomplete notification of affected persons), issued a reprimand, imposed €300,000 for the security failings (Art. 5(1)(f) and 32(1)) and ordered it to introduce specified policies and procedures for secure processing.

Authority / court

Data Protection Commission (DPC)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Art. 5(1)(f), 28, 30, 32(1), 34 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Healthcare

Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link

In 2019, the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BlnBDI) had imposed 14.5 million EUR on the housing group because tenant data such as salary statements, bank statements and social security data were held in an archive system with no means of deletion. Following the 2023 CJEU judgment on direct corporate liability, the Berlin Regional Court (Landgericht Berlin I) confirmed on 9 June 2026 infringements of data minimisation and storage limitation; the press release does not state the amount of the fine set by the court.

Authority / court

Landgericht Berlin I (Bußgeldbehörde: Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Art. 5, Art. 25 Abs. 1 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Construction and real estate

Liability of senior managers

According to the CJEU (C-807/21), a breach of duty by a person in a management position need not be proven for the corporate fine.

Published

10 Jun 2026

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

Due to errors by a processor of the energy supplier, incorrect details of a direct debit mandate were recorded, so that three bills instead of one were debited from the customer's account; call recordings and the mandate form had not been retained. ZENITH responded inadequately to the access request and did not correct the data (100,000 EUR), while Piraeus Bank infringed the right of access (10,000 EUR and a reprimand); Decision No. 8/2026 of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority.

Authority / court

Αρχή Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα (Hellenic DPA)

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. d, Art. 12 Abs. 3, Art. 15, Art. 28 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Energy and utilities

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

According to the complaint by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Illuminate promised schools data security but did not adequately protect its cloud databases, even though a service provider had pointed out vulnerabilities almost two years earlier; a hacker accessed data on 10.1 million students, including health information. The order requires an information security programme, data minimisation and a public deletion schedule, and prohibits misrepresentations about security and notification deadlines.

Authority / court

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

FTC Act (Verbot unlauterer und irreführender Praktiken)

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Culpability

negligent

Published

5 Jun 2026

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

Datatilsynet (Norwegian Data Protection Authority) fined Elkjøp Nordic AS and Elkjøp Norge AS NOK 20,000,000. Following an on-site inspection in June 2022, the authority found that consent for the customer club was neither informed nor specific nor freely given, that club data had been reused without a legal basis for the 'kundematch' (customer match) tool, that the lawfulness of so-called offline conversions had not been assessed and documented, and that rectification requests had not been handled within the deadlines. The decision was adopted under the cooperation mechanism with the supervisory authorities of Sweden, Iceland, Finland and Denmark; more than six million club members across the Nordic countries were affected.

Authority / court

Datatilsynet

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

Art. 6 Abs. 1 i. V. m. Art. 4 Nr. 11, Art. 6 Abs. 4, Art. 5 Abs. 2 i. V. m. Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, Art. 12 Abs. 3 DSGVO; Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. i DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Culpability

intentional

Mitigating circumstances

Improvements made after the inspection, Datatilsynet's long case-handling time and the lack of evidence that sensitive data were processed; the amount is well below the starting point in the EDPB guidelines (0.4–0.8% of group turnover).

Published

4 Jun 2026

Original amount 20,000,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 1 Jun 2026.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link

The ICO fined Thermotech Wall and Loft Surveys Ltd £240,000 and issued an enforcement notice. After executing a search warrant in April 2025, the regulator found that between October 2024 and March 2025 the company had instigated 575,062 unsolicited marketing calls to numbers that had been on the TPS register for more than 28 days. There were 132 complaints. The legal basis is regulations 21 and 24 of PECR.

Authority / court

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

Regulations 21 und 24 PECR; section 55A DPA 1998

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Construction and real estate

Original amount 240,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 May 2026.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link

The CNIL (French data protection authority) fined IQVIA Operations France EUR 5,000,000 because, for two health data warehouses authorised by the CNIL (fed with data from around 14,000 pharmacies and several thousand medical practices), the company did not comply with the conditions of the authorisations, including log analysis, multi-factor authentication, patient information and the right to object. In addition, pharmacy customers were not informed of the transfer of their data, in-house studies were carried out without the required authorisation and the pharmacy software transmitted data even after a refusal (Art. 25 GDPR). The CNIL classified the data as pseudonymised rather than anonymous and ordered remedial action within six months, subject to a penalty payment of EUR 10,000 per day.

Authority / court

Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), formation restreinte

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

Art. 66 Loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 (Loi Informatique et Libertés); Art. 14 und 25 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Healthcare

Culpability

negligent

Mitigating circumstances

The security shortcomings were remedied after the inspections.

Published

28 May 2026

Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link

On 7 November 2025, the publisher's news portals Origo and Magyar Nemzet linked to a map, created by unknown persons, containing the names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, geo-coordinates and political preferences of Tisza sympathisers; Ripost showed an image with the name of the map. The Hungarian data protection authority (Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság, NAIH) found intentional infringements of Art. 6 and 9 GDPR, prohibited further dissemination and imposed 50 million HUF.

Authority / court

Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság (NAIH)

Area of law

Data protection

Legal basis

DSGVO Art. 6 Abs. 1, Art. 9 Abs. 1, Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. b und f

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Media and online platforms

Culpability

intentional

Published

26 May 2026

Original amount 50,000,000 HUF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 26 May 2026.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link

In September 2022 the public TVET college mistakenly emailed reports verifying the qualifications and criminal records of three employees to other staff, informed neither the regulator nor those affected, and had not registered an information officer. Departing from the view of its Enforcement Committee, the regulator also treated this as impermissible further processing and found breaches of accountability, purpose limitation, security safeguards and the notification duty; on 22 May 2026 it ordered, among other things, registration, notification of the breach, a written apology, a compliance framework and POPIA training for all staff.

Authority / court

Information Regulator (South Africa)

Area of law

Data protection · Employee data

Legal basis

Sections 8, 15(1), 19(1) und 22(1) Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA); Enforcement Notice nach Section 95 POPIA

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Public sector

Mitigating circumstances

The college recalled the email two days later, informed staff of the error and took action against those responsible; according to the regulator, this did not relieve it of the duty to notify.

Published

2 Jun 2026

Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link

The ICO fined a UK marketing company £300,000 and issued an enforcement notice. The ICO found that the company had sent more than 5.5 million unsolicited marketing text messages, including messages styled as if they came from bailiffs. The 7726 spam reporting service received over 60,000 complaints. The ICO relied on regulations 22 and 23 of PECR (electronic marketing without consent and concealed sender identity).

Authority / court

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

Regulations 22 und 23 PECR; section 55A DPA 1998

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Other

Original amount 300,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 20 May 2026.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link

Attackers posed as technical support, induced staff at points of sale to grant system access and obtained data on more than 365,000 customers, including payment data for 41,359 of them. The Italian data protection authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) criticised deficient management of access credentials and digital certificates as well as inadequate security assessments, and imposed 1,715,600 EUR.

Authority / court

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

DSGVO (Integrität und Vertraulichkeit, Art. 32)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Published

16 Jul 2026

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

The Walloon water utility recorded and listened in on customer calls for quality control and training purposes; the Litigation Chamber of the Autorité de protection des données (Belgian Data Protection Authority, APD/GBA) found infringements of transparency and fairness as well as in the engagement of a sub-processor. It imposed two fines totalling 86,000 EUR (85,000 + 1,000) after reducing the amounts in view of the situation of the public utility; an appeal against the decision has been lodged with the Market Court.

Authority / court

Autorité de protection des données (APD/GBA) – Chambre Contentieuse

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, Art. 6 Abs. 1, Art. 12 Abs. 1, Art. 13, Art. 28 Abs. 3

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

under appeal

Sector

Energy and utilities

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

Fraudsters in possession of customer data posed as customers at the bank's ‘Open24’ call centre, had account details changed and obtained further information because security protocols were not followed; those affected had to close accounts, and some suffered losses. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) imposed 250,000 EUR for inadequate security and 27,500 EUR for late breach notification (decision served in the week before the press release).

Authority / court

Data Protection Commission (DPC)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. f, Art. 32 Abs. 1, Art. 33 Abs. 1 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Financial services and insurance

Published

8 May 2026

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

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.

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

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.

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

Although the Information and Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC) had already ruled in favour of a complainant, an insurance company (name redacted) again had him called for marketing purposes via a third-party company; his number remained on call lists. The IDPC criticised the lack of safeguards and inadequate contracts with processors, ordered remedial action within 20 days and imposed two fines totalling 1,000 EUR.

Authority / court

Information and Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC)

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

Art. 5 Abs. 2, Art. 21 Abs. 2, Art. 24 Abs. 1, Art. 28 Abs. 3 i. V. m. Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. b, d, i DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Financial services and insurance

Repeat case

yes

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

A processor of Berlin's public transport operator BVG, which had sent customer letters in early 2025, was hacked; around 180,000 customer records were affected, although they should long since have been deleted after the end of the contract. BVG had never checked the deletion, had not agreed any procedure for data breaches in the data processing agreement and reported the incident only after the 72-hour deadline had expired; the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BlnBDI) issued a reprimand.

Authority / court

Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (BlnBDI)

Area of law

Data protection · Data processors

Legal basis

Art. 5 Abs. 2 i. V. m. Abs. 1 lit. c, e, f, Art. 28 Abs. 3 S. 2 lit. f, Art. 32 Abs. 1, Art. 33 DSGVO

Action

Reprimand or warning

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Transport, logistics and shipping

Mitigating circumstances

BVG has announced measures against similar incidents.

Published

4 May 2026

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

In a ransomware attack on the membership management system of Yau Yat Chuen Garden City Club Limited, a private, non-profit recreational club, reported on 31 October 2025, data of 9,045 current and former members and supplementary card holders were affected, including identity card or passport numbers. The attacker exploited a known vulnerability in outdated remote access software of the external service provider and reached the server, which had been left logged in, without further authentication; antivirus software and firewall were outdated, and personal data had been kept longer than necessary. In its investigation report published on 23 April 2026 the PCPD (Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong's data protection authority) found breaches of DPP 4(1) and DPP 2(2) and served an enforcement notice.

Authority / court

Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD), Hongkong

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, Data Protection Principles 4(1) und 2(2); Enforcement Notice

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Other

Published

23 Apr 2026

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

The ICO issued an enforcement notice to a UK company. The ICO found that the company had instigated calls about claims management services without the consent of the people called. Under regulation 21A of PECR such calls are only permitted with prior consent; the ICO also found a breach of regulation 24. The notice is an enforcement notice and does not impose a fine.

Authority / court

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

Regulations 21A und 24 PECR; section 40 DPA 1998

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Financial services and insurance

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link

Both companies continued to use e-mail addresses and telephone numbers from online purchases for advertising, although data subjects had objected – in some cases after deletion had been confirmed. The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter, EDÖB) ordered the processing for advertising to cease and the data to be deleted on request.

Authority / court

Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter (EDÖB)

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

DSG Art. 6, Art. 30 Abs. 2 lit. b, Art. 31

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Published

26 Jun 2026

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

The starting point was a complaint about incomplete disclosure of patient data; the clinic left several requests from the supervisory authority unanswered. The Andmekaitse Inspektsioon (Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate, AKI) ordered it to revise its contracts with Align Technology (Invisalign) with regard to the GDPR roles (Art. 26/28 GDPR), to adapt the consent form and the privacy notices in accordance with Art. 7, 9, 13 and 14 GDPR and to publish them in Estonian; non-compliance is subject to a penalty payment of 1,000 EUR per item.

Authority / court

Andmekaitse Inspektsioon (AKI)

Area of law

Data protection · Data processors

Legal basis

§ 56 Abs. 1 IKS; Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. d DSGVO i. V. m. Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, 7, 9, 13, 14, 26, 28 DSGVO

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Healthcare

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link

A provider of public utility services used GPS transmitters in company vehicles to record employees’ location data permanently and without cause, without defining a purpose, carrying out a balancing of interests or providing sufficient information. The Informacijski pooblaščenec (Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia, IP) imposed 6,000 EUR on the company.

Authority / court

Informacijski pooblaščenec Republike Slovenije (IP)

Area of law

Data protection · Employee data

Legal basis

Art. 5 und Art. 6 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Energy and utilities

Liability of senior managers

Measures against individuals are not reported here.

Published

15 Apr 2026

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link

The publisher kept data of around 685,000 former book club members in a ‘passive database’, in around 395,000 cases more than ten years after they had left, without any deletion rules. The Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet) had recommended a fine of 1 million DKK in 2022; the case was closed on 14 April 2026 with a fine notice whose amount is not stated in the source.

Authority / court

Anklagemyndigheden (Bødeforelæg) auf Anzeige der Datatilsynet

Area of law

Data protection

Legal basis

DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. e, Art. 5 Abs. 2

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Media and online platforms

Mitigating circumstances

Cooperative conduct; only two employees had access to the passive database; deletion after the supervisory visit.

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

An employer installed the software Spyrix Employee Monitoring on the work computers of individual employees, which for months recorded screen content, audio and even private e-mails and conversations without informing the employees. The supervisory authority, the Informacijski pooblaščenec (Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia, IP), imposed 71,474 EUR on the company.

Authority / court

Informacijski pooblaščenec Republike Slovenije (IP)

Area of law

Data protection · Employee data

Legal basis

Art. 5 und Art. 6 Abs. 1 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Other

Culpability

intentional

Liability of senior managers

Measures against individuals are not reported here.

Published

9 Apr 2026

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link

Amsterdam-based Ridetech offered the ride-hailing app Yango in Finland and Norway and transferred data of drivers and customers to the group companies Yandex.Taxi LLC and Yandex LLC in Russia without demonstrating appropriate safeguards. The Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (Dutch Data Protection Authority, AP) imposed 100 million EUR on the legal successor and prohibited further transfers to Russia.

Authority / court

Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP)

Area of law

Data protection · International data transfers

Legal basis

Art. 44, Art. 46 iVm Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a und Abs. 2 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Transport, logistics and shipping

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

The Privacy Commissioner found that the rental application platform 2Apply collected more personal information than necessary from March 2020 to March 2025, such as gender, student status, citizenship, visa expiry and previous living arrangements, and did so unfairly through design techniques such as “confirmshaming”, biased framing and bundled consent. The determination requires IRE to stop this collection within 60 days, engage an independent reviewer and report to the OAIC within twelve months on implementing the recommendations.

Authority / court

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

APP 3.2 und APP 3.5 (Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)); Feststellungen nach s 52(1A)

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Mitigating circumstances

IRE adapted its collection practices during the investigation without admitting a breach.

Published

22 Apr 2026

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

The management corporation of the Riverfront Residences condominium had not designated a data protection officer until March 2025, had no data protection policies of its own and had given its managing agent, which acted for it as a data intermediary, no instructions on handling personal data; in April 2025 an employee of the managing agent mistakenly sent the names, addresses and maintenance fee details of two owners to another owner. The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC, Singapore's data protection authority) found breaches of the Accountability Obligation and the Protection Obligation; by contrast, it found no breach in the circulation of a requisition for an extraordinary general meeting bearing the names and signatures of 303 owners, because strata management law prevailed. It directed the corporation to introduce, within 90 days, policies and procedures for the processing of data by the managing agent and to communicate them to it; the managing agent itself had given a voluntary undertaking.

Authority / court

Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC)

Area of law

Data protection · Data processors

Legal basis

Sections 11(3) und 12(a) PDPA 2012 (Accountability Obligation); Section 24 i. V. m. Section 4(3) PDPA (Protection Obligation bei Einsatz eines Data Intermediary)

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Construction and real estate

Published

7 May 2026

Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link

The ICO fined Energy Prices Direct Limited, an energy switching broker, £160,000. The ICO found that the company had obtained contact details from public sources and list providers and did not screen them against the TPS/CTPS registers before making marketing calls. The legal basis is regulations 21 and 24 of PECR. Under the notice, timely payment reduces the amount by 20% to £128,000.

Authority / court

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

Regulations 21 und 24 PECR; section 55A DPA 1998

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Energy and utilities

Original amount 160,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 30 Mar 2026.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link

In an attack on an application operated by a processor, data of a very large number of persons (including personal identification numbers, driving licence and identity card numbers, vehicle identification numbers) were stolen and published. The Romanian data protection authority (ANSPDCP) criticised the lack of security measures and effectiveness testing as well as the selection of a service provider without sufficient guarantees and imposed 637,262.50 lei (125,000 EUR).

Authority / court

Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP)

Area of law

Data protection · Data processors

Legal basis

Art. 32 Abs. 1 lit. b und d, Abs. 2 i. V. m. Art. 28 Abs. 1 DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Automotive

Published

25 Mar 2026

Original amount 637,262.5 RON, converted at the ECB reference rate of 25 Mar 2026.

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

A person complained that Fitsypro had not responded to their request for access, rectification and erasure of November 2023. Three requests for information from the Datu valsts inspekcija (Latvian Data State Inspectorate, DVI) between 2024 and 2026 went unanswered, and nobody attended the hearing. The DVI imposed 1,500 EUR and requested the information by 21 April 2026.

Authority / court

Datu valsts inspekcija (DVI)

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

Art. 58 Abs. 1 lit. e, Art. 83 Abs. 5 lit. e DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Other

Culpability

intentional

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

In December 2024 the Kolding City Court fined the Region Syddanmark (Region of Southern Denmark) 1,000,000 DKK for two breaches of the duty to ensure appropriate data security. On 23 March 2026 the Vestre Landsret (Western High Court) upheld only the first charge – in a research and clinical database, logged-in users could access PDF documents of more than 23,000 registered persons, including health data of minors in psychiatric care, by changing the URL – and reduced the fine to 500,000 DKK; it acquitted the region of the charge concerning patient data in a presentation on its website.

Authority / court

Retten i Kolding; Vestre Landsret (auf Anzeige der Datatilsynet)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Art. 32 Abs. 1, Art. 83 Abs. 4 lit. a und Abs. 9 DSGVO; databeskyttelseslovens § 41 stk. 1 nr. 1, stk. 3 og 6

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

reduced

Sector

Public sector

Culpability

negligent

Repeat case

yes

Original amount 500,000 DKK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 23 Mar 2026.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link

A general practitioner who had no longer been treating the complainant since January 2023 accessed his health data (findings, prescriptions) on the national e-health platform EESZT a total of 47 times via his practice software until August 2024 and did not respond to an access request. The Hungarian data protection authority (Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság, NAIH) found infringements of Art. 5(2), 6(1), 9(2), 12(2) and 15(1) GDPR, ordered compliance with the access request and imposed 500,000 HUF.

Authority / court

Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság (NAIH)

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 2, 6 Abs. 1, 9 Abs. 2, 12 Abs. 2, 15 Abs. 1

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Healthcare

Published

20 Mar 2026

Original amount 500,000 HUF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 20 Mar 2026.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link

Singtel Optus asked customers who ported their number to Optus whether they wanted to appear in the phone directory, but between October 2015 and September 2019 it did not act on requests for an unlisted number, so that 41,278 affected customers remained published in the White Pages. The Privacy Commissioner found a breach of APP 11.1 because Optus did not remove a risk of errors it had been aware of throughout the period with reasonable steps such as regular system reconciliations, and declared that the company must not repeat this conduct. The regulator intends to decide on compensation separately in a representative complaint concerning the same conduct.

Authority / court

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) s 13(1), APP 11.1; Erklärung nach s 52(1A)(a)

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Published

11 Jun 2026

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

Following a cyber attack in spring 2025 in which data of about 375,000 current and 540,000 former customers was exfiltrated, including bank account, driver's licence and social insurance numbers, Nova Scotia Power signed a compliance letter to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. The company commits to delete customers' social insurance numbers and, by 31 October 2026, to submit an independent security assessment – including employee training and notification processes – and to report on implementing its recommendations; only then will the investigation be discontinued. According to the letter, the starting point was an employee clicking a link in a pop-up on a compromised website, which installed malware.

Authority / court

Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA); Einstellung nach Paragraph 12.2(1)(c) bei Erfüllung der Zusagen

Action

Other

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Energy and utilities

Published

25 Mar 2026

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

In March 2026 the ICO fined a small UK direct marketing company £130,000 and also served an enforcement notice. According to the ICO, over almost eleven months in 2024 the company had staff make more than 230,000 marketing calls to lines that had been on the UK's opt-out register for sales calls (Telephone Preference Service, TPS) for over 28 days, prompting 12 complaints. The ICO treated this as a breach of regulation 21 of PECR.

Authority / court

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

Regulations 21 und 24 PECR; section 55A DPA 1998

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Other

Original amount 130,000 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Mar 2026.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link

In 2021, the Luxembourg data protection authority (CNPD) had imposed 746 million EUR and an order to bring processing into compliance on account of behavioural online advertising; the Administrative Tribunal (Tribunal administratif) confirmed this on 18 March 2025. On 12 March 2026, the Administrative Court (Cour administrative) confirmed that legitimate interest was not a sound legal basis and that the information was insufficient, but annulled the fine on the basis of more recent CJEU case law on the requirement of culpability; the CNPD is re-examining the sanction.

Authority / court

Cour administrative (Luxemburg); Verfahren der CNPD

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f, Art. 12 ff. DSGVO

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

overturned

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Employees

10,000 or more

Mitigating circumstances

Amazon had implemented the compliance order before the hearing.

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

In February 2023 there was external, unauthorised access to a system operated by a processor containing data on users and employees. As lead authority, the AEPD imposed 650,000 EUR for breaching Art. 5(1)(f) GDPR, dropped the charges under Art. 32 and 34 and ordered appropriate security measures within six months. The amount and the facts have not been confirmed against the primary source.

Authority / court

Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Transport, logistics and shipping

Checked against the official source on 7 Oct 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link

The Montreal-based World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), a foundation under Swiss private law, entered into a compliance agreement under PIPEDA with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, under which an investigation opened in November 2024 following a complaint is held in abeyance and will be discontinued once the agreement is fulfilled. WADA must ensure that anti-doping organisations use athletes' personal information in the ADAMS system only for anti-doping purposes from 1 January 2027, amend the World Anti-Doping Code and the ADAMS agreements accordingly, document a control mechanism and report quarterly. WADA disputes any contravention and the Commissioner's jurisdiction; if it fails to comply, the Commissioner may apply to the Federal Court for an order.

Authority / court

Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC)

Area of law

Data protection

Legal basis

Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Sections 17.1 und 17.2 (Compliance Agreement)

Action

Other

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Other

Published

17 Mar 2026

Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link

The Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency) fined a company marketing financial and insurance products 50,000 EUR for unlawful telephone advertising. The calls were particularly intrusive, callers falsely claimed to be an independent advice centre and presented sales calls as service calls; the company has appealed.

Authority / court

Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA)

Area of law

Data protection · Marketing and consent

Legal basis

UWG – Verbot unerlaubter Telefonwerbung gegenüber Verbraucherinnen und Verbrauchern

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

under appeal

Sector

Financial services and insurance

Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link

During a wave of boycotts in 2024, Loblaw did not process deletion requests in time and retained purchase and usage data from the loyalty programme (more than 17 million members) even after accounts were closed, without demonstrating effective anonymisation. Loblaw undertook to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) to have the anonymisation independently reviewed and to carry out annual deletions.

Authority / court

Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC)

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

PIPEDA

Action

Other

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Retail and e-commerce

Employees

10,000 or more

Published

5 Mar 2026

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

Despite repeated follow-ups by the trade union, the cleaning company did not respond to a union member’s access request and also failed to comply with the order of the Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet) to decide on the request. Datatilsynet reported the company; the case was closed on 2 March 2026 with a fine notice of 60,000 DKK.

Authority / court

Anklagemyndigheden (Bødeforelæg) auf Anzeige der Datatilsynet

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

DSGVO Art. 15; Nichtbefolgung einer Anordnung der Datatilsynet; databeskyttelsesloven

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Other

Original amount 60,000 DKK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 2 Mar 2026.

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

Following six complaints, the Tietosuojavaltuutetun toimisto (Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman) found that the company did not provide a copy to customers who requested recordings of their sales calls in order to dispute invoices, offering only to let them listen via customer service, and in some cases deleted recordings. In addition to a reprimand, a fine of 5,000 EUR was imposed.

Authority / court

Tietosuojavaltuutetun toimisto – seuraamuskollegio (Datenschutzbeauftragter, Sanktionsgremium)

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

DSGVO Art. 15 Abs. 1 und 3

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Telecoms, IT and software

Published

25 Mar 2026

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

During an inspection at the Passo Corese logistics centre (around 1,800 employees), the Garante (Italian data protection authority) found that, after return-to-work interviews, information on illnesses, participation in strikes, trade union activities and family circumstances of employees – irrelevant to their professional aptitude – was recorded in free-text fields of a platform linked to time recording and accessible to many managers. With immediate effect it ordered the definitive restriction of processing of these entries – also at all other sites using the platform – and of four cameras at the entrances to toilets and break areas; the investigation was continuing.

Authority / court

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali

Area of law

Data protection · Employee data

Legal basis

Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, c und e, Art. 6, 9 und 88 DSGVO; Art. 113 Codice privacy (D.Lgs. 196/2003); Maßnahme nach Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. f DSGVO

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Transport, logistics and shipping

Employees

10,000 or more

Published

24 Feb 2026

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link

The ICO fined Reddit, Inc. £14,472,500. The regulator found that the platform did not use any robust age assurance and therefore had no lawful basis for processing the personal data of children under 13. The ICO also found that Reddit had not carried out a data protection impact assessment on the risks to children before January 2025. The ICO found infringements of Articles 5(1)(a), 6, 8 and 35 UK GDPR.

Authority / court

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

Area of law

Data protection

Legal basis

Art. 5(1)(a), 6, 8 und 35 UK GDPR; section 155 DPA 2018

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Media and online platforms

Original amount 14,472,500 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 23 Feb 2026.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link