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Bergen Municipality: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security

€170,000 Fine
Bergen Municipality
NORWAY
Art. 5 GDPR Art. 32 GDPR
Security Education Public Authority IP Address Personal Data Public Sector Minors Supervisory Authorities
Mar 1, 2019 Source

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The incident relates to computer files with usernames and passwords to over 35000 user accounts in the municipality’s computer system. The user accounts related to both pupils in the municipality’s primary schools, and to the employees of the same schools. Due to insufficient security measures, these files have been unprotected and openly accessible. The lack of security measures in the system made it possible for anyone to log in to the school’s various information systems, and thereby to access various categories of personal data relating to the pupils and employees of the schools. The fact that the security breach encompasses personal data to over 35 000 individuals, and that the majority of these are children, were considered to be aggravating factors. The municipality had also been warned several times, both by the authority and an internal whistleblower, that the data security was inadequate.

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