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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
€278,912Total of monetary amounts
€278,912Largest single case: Incruit Corporation
€278,912Median per case with an amount

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1 case

22 Oct 2025 Incruit CorporationIncruit: 463 million KRW after repeat data leak affecting 7.3 million job seekers South KoreaData breaches and data security €278,912

In January 2025 attackers infected the work computer of an employee of the online job portal Incruit with malware, took over the employee’s database access and, until February 2025, extracted data on all 7,275,843 members and 54,475 stored CVs, cover letters and copies of certificates (438 GB in total). Despite conspicuous database access outside business hours, the company only noticed the leak through an extortion message; it had already been sanctioned in July 2023 for inadequate access controls. The authority imposed a penalty surcharge of 463,000,000 KRW and ordered the appointment of a qualified chief privacy officer and a plan to prevent further incidents and support those affected.

What organisations can take from it

Anyone who makes only piecemeal fixes after a first incident risks a higher penalty – database access outside business hours must trigger an alert.

Relevance to training and awareness

Malware on workstations and detection of unusual access

Authority / court
Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC, 개인정보보호위원회)
Area of law
Data protection · Data breaches and data security
Legal basis
Personal Information Protection Act (개인정보 보호법) Art. 29; Sanktion nach Art. 64-2(1) Nr. 9
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Media and online platforms
Repeat case
yes
Mitigating circumstances
Reduction of 55% because no benefit was derived and the company is a medium-sized enterprise under the Korean Framework Act on Small and Medium Enterprises, and a further 20% for cooperation, remediation and self-regulation; increase of 65% because the infringement lasted more than two years and because of the July 2023 sanction.
Liability of senior managers
The company was ordered to appoint a new, qualified chief privacy officer (CPO) and to define the CPO’s responsibility clearly.
Published
23 Oct 2025

Original amount 463,000,000 KRW, converted at the ECB reference rate of 22 Oct 2025.

Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link

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