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Who was sanctioned, and for what?

Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa: 2,033 cases from 44 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
€3.5mTotal of monetary amounts
€3.5mLargest single case: Großbank, Spanien (anonymisiert)
€3.5mMedian per case with an amount

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1 case

12 Dec 2024 Großbank, Spanien (anonymisiert)AEPD: EUR 3.5 million fine on a major bank as an authorised person could view another account SpainData breaches and data security €3.5m

A person authorised for only two of the accounts of a customer of a major Spanish bank was able, in online banking, to view the financial information of a joint account held by the customer with another co-holder, for which that person had no authorisation. The Spanish data protection authority AEPD imposed EUR 500,000 (Art. 5(1)(f)) and EUR 3,000,000 for lack of data protection by design (Art. 25), EUR 3,500,000 in total, dropped the Art. 32 charge and ordered adjustments; the request for reconsideration was dismissed.

What organisations can take from it

Online banking permissions must be cleanly separated per account; an authorisation must not extend to other people's products.

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, Art. 25 DSGVO
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Employees
10,000 or more

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

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