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Who was sanctioned, and for what?

Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia-Pacific: 1,905 cases from 39 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
€1.2mTotal of monetary amounts
€1.2mLargest single case: IDCQ Hospitales y Sanidad, S.L.U.
€1.2mMedian per case with an amount

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1 case

21 Nov 2025 IDCQ Hospitales y Sanidad, S.L.U.AEPD: €1.2m fine for hospital operator IDCQ over disposed patient scans SpainData breaches and data security €1.2m

A hospital of the group had removed from its archive earlier MRI scans that a patient had brought in for comparison once an internal collection period had expired, so that they were no longer available. The AEPD imposed 100,000 EUR each for processing health data without a legal basis (Art. 9 and Art. 6) and 1,000,000 EUR for lack of data protection by design in the procedure (Art. 25), 1,200,000 EUR in total.

What organisations can take from it

Documents handed over by patients are health data and must not be destroyed under internal clear-out deadlines.

Relevance to training and awareness

Handling health records handed over by patients

Authority / court
Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD)
Area of law
Data protection · Data breaches and data security
Legal basis
Art. 6, 9, 25 DSGVO
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Healthcare
Published
20 Mar 2026

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

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