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

1case from 1 jurisdiction
€1.92mTotal of monetary amounts
€1.92mLargest single case: PayPal, Inc.
€1.92mMedian per case with an amount

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1 case

23 Jan 2025 PayPal, Inc.NYDFS: $2 million against PayPal over untrained teams and missing MFA USA, NYSecurity measures and risk management €1.92m

When changing data flows for 1099-K tax forms, insufficiently trained teams bypassed security processes; criminals with compromised credentials were able to retrieve forms containing social security numbers. According to the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), qualified personnel, training, access policies as well as MFA, CAPTCHA and rate limiting were lacking.

What organisations can take from it

Anyone changing data flows must know the security processes – training development teams is part of cyber defence.

Relevance to training and awareness

Secure software development and change processes

Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.

Authority / court
New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS)
Area of law
Information security and cyber · Security measures and risk management
Legal basis
23 NYCRR Part 500 (Cybersecurity Regulation)
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
final
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Employees
10,000 or more
Culpability
negligent
Mitigating circumstances
PayPal has since remedied the deficiencies.
Published
23 Jan 2025

Original amount 2,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 23 Jan 2025.

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

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