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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
€1.8mTotal of monetary amounts
€1.8mLargest single case: S-Pankki Oyj
€1.8mMedian per case with an amount

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1 case

8 Sep 2025 S-Pankki OyjS-Pankki: 1.8 million EUR over security flaw in bank identification service FinlandData breaches and data security €1.8m

After a new login function was introduced in the S-mobiili app in April 2022, a vulnerability in the identification service made it possible until August 2022 to access online banking and services requiring strong authentication using other customers’ credentials; misuse caused financial losses. The bank had introduced the function without sufficient risk analysis and testing; the sanctions board of the Tietosuojavaltuutetun toimisto (Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman) imposed 1.8 million EUR in addition to a reprimand, with a previous reprimand acting as an aggravating factor.

What organisations can take from it

Before launch, new functions in authentication services require a risk analysis of all user paths and targeted security testing.

Authority / court
Tietosuojavaltuutetun toimisto – seuraamuskollegio (Datenschutzbeauftragter, Sanktionsgremium)
Area of law
Data protection · Data breaches and data security
Legal basis
DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. f, Art. 25 Abs. 1, Art. 32 Abs. 1 und 2
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Financial services and insurance
Repeat case
yes
Mitigating circumstances
The fine imposed by the financial supervisory authority (7.67 million EUR) for the same facts was taken into account (fine around one third of the amount that would otherwise have been imposed); according to the bank, it compensated customers for direct losses.
Published
10 Sep 2025

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

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