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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 1,370 cases from 35 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
€3.2mTotal of monetary amounts
€3.2mLargest single case: Centros Comerciales Carrefour, S.A.
€3.2mMedian per case with an amount

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1 case

14 Mar 2025 Centros Comerciales Carrefour, S.A.AEPD: €3.2m fine for Carrefour Spain over access to customer accounts SpainData breaches and data security €3.2m

Between January and April 2023 Carrefour notified several personal data breaches involving unauthorised access to customer profiles; according to the notifications 118,895 people were affected in total. The AEPD imposed 2,000,000 EUR (Art. 5(1)(f)), 1,000,000 EUR (Art. 32) and 200,000 EUR for failing to inform data subjects (Art. 34), 3,200,000 EUR in total, and ordered the data subjects to be informed within one month.

What organisations can take from it

Repeated access to customer accounts requires effective account protection and informing those affected, not just notifying the authority.

Relevance to training and awareness

Protecting customer accounts against account takeover

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, 32, 34 DSGVO
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Retail and e-commerce

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

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