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December 18, 2019

1&1 Telecom fined €9.6M

Location of Reported GDPR Violation:

Germany

Articles Violated:

  • Article 32: A caller could obtain extensive information on personal customer data from the company's customer service department simply by entering a customer's name and date of..
December 17, 2019

Employee Insurance Service Provider fined €900,000

Location of Reported GDPR Violation:

   Netherlands

Articles Violated:

  • Art. 32 GDPR: Did not use multi-factor authentication when accessing the online employer portal; security was inadequate. Employers and health and safety services were able to..
December 16, 2019

Deutsche Wohnen SE fined €14.5M

Location of Reported GDPR Violation:

   Germany

Articles Violated:

  • Art. 5 GDPR, Art. 25 GDPR: Personal data of tenants were stored without checking whether storage was permissible or even necessary, sometimes years after it was needed, and there..
December 16, 2019

Austrian Post fined €18,000,000

Location of Reported GDPR Violation:

 Austria

Articles Violated:

  • Article 5 (1) a: Created profiles of more than three million Austrians, which included information about their home addresses, personal preferences, habits and possible party..
August 28, 2019

National Revenue Agency fined €2.6M

Location of Reported GDPR Violation:

 Bulgaria 

Articles Violated:

  • Article 32 GDPR: Personal data concerning about 6 million persons was illegally accessible.

Source:enforcementtracker.com

July 9, 2019

Marriott International, Inc. fined €110.4M

Location of Reported GDPR Violation:

 United Kingdom

Articles Violated:

  • Article 32 GDPR: (Reported November 2018) Marriott failed to undertake sufficient due diligence when it bought Starwood hotels group (2016), whose systems were compromised as..
July 8, 2019

British Airways fined €204.6M

Location of Reported GDPR Violation:

United Kingdom 

Articles Violated:

  • Article 32 GDPR: In September 2018 user traffic to the British Airways website was diverted to a fraudulent site, from which customer details were harvested by the attackers
January 21, 2019

Google, Inc. fined €50M

Location of Reported GDPR Violation:

 France 

Articles Violated: