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Who was sanctioned, and for what?

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

1case from 1 jurisdiction
€4,938Total of monetary amounts
€4,938Median per case with an amount

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When?

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1 case

23 Oct 2025 Komornik Sądowy przy Sądzie Rejonowym w S. (Gerichtsvollzieherkanzlei, im Bescheid pseudonymisiert)Bailiff: 20,900 PLN – documents with PESEL number misdirected, not notified PolandIncident reporting obligations €4,938

In October 2023, an uninvolved person received a debtor’s enforcement documents containing name, address, date of birth, PESEL number, amount of the claim and employer. The bailiff’s office neither notified the supervisory authority nor informed the data subject; the UODO (Poland’s data protection authority) imposed 7,700 PLN for the failure to notify and 13,200 PLN for the failure to inform the data subject, and ordered the data subject to be informed within three days.

What organisations can take from it

Where identification numbers such as the PESEL number are disclosed, a high risk can almost always be assumed – notification of the authority and of the data subject is then mandatory.

Relevance to training and awareness

Checking postal mailings; notifying data breaches involving identification numbers

Authority / court
Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Danych Osobowych (UODO)
Area of law
Information security and cyber · Incident reporting obligations
Legal basis
Art. 33 Abs. 1, Art. 34 Abs. 1 und 2 DSGVO
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Public sector

Original amount 20,900 PLN, converted at the ECB reference rate of 23 Oct 2025.

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

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