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HDPA: Hellenic Open University found to have met breach notification duties after The Hellenic Open University (‘the controller’) submitted initial and supplementary notifications to the DPA after it was subject to a data breach resulting from a ransomware… 14/2026 ·Greece ·Art. 32, 33, 34 +1 Data Breaches Notification Obligation Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Aug 19, 2026
€15,300 10266250 The data subject received unsolicited promotional phone calls and a email containing contractual information from Green Partner (the processor), despite the data subject's phone… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 5, 6, 7 +6 Processors Controllers Personal Data Aug 19, 2026
Datatilsynet (DK) · 2023-31-0321 A customer of a bank ('the data subject'), suspected that their former spouse, who was employed by the same bank ('the controller'), was accessing their accounts and decided to… 2023-31-0321 ·Denmark ·Art. 12, 15 Right of Access Personal Data Controllers Aug 18, 2026
RON 285,395 AMATO BESTSELLER S.R.L. A general wholesale/retail trade company (controller) failed to implement adequate technical and organisational measures, such as appropriate training of its employees, in order… Romania ·ANSPDCP ·Art. 5, 9, 12 +2 Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Personal Data Retention Period Aug 18, 2026
PLN 29,112 UODO fines company PLN 29,112 for failing to comply with Art. 58(2)(c) GDPR order The DPA issued a decision in the case DKE.560.206.2025 ordering a limited liability company (the controller) to fulfil its information obligations under Articles 14(1) and 14(2)… Poland ·Art. 14, 58 Personal Data Supervision Fines Aug 18, 2026
€1,000 Austrian DSB: Employee who shared customer's phone number acted as GDPR controller An employee (controller) of a company shared the telephone number of a costumer (data subject) with a third person. The third person who was a personal acquaintance of the… Austria ·Art. 4, 5, 6 +1 Controllers Legitimate Interest Personal Data Aug 18, 2026
An Italian broadcasting company (controller) disseminated an episode about the murder of a woman The murder case dates back several years but gained new attention after the investigation into the murder case was re-opened. In the dissemination, the interior of the home of the… 10273026 ·Italy ·Garante Personal Data Retention Period Controllers Aug 18, 2026
€200,000 XFERA MÓVILES, S.A.U. (XFERA), the controller, is a telecommunications provider The data subject was a customer of the controller and held a mobile telephone line. On 24 July 2023, an unauthorised third party requested a duplicate SIM card for the data… ps-00148-2025 ·Spain ·AEPD Personal Data Legitimate Interest Controllers Aug 13, 2026
€1,282 IP-RS · 0609-41/2026/7 A company (the controller) used a service provider (the processor) to store personal data, manage a database, and provide technical support and maintenance on its behalf. A legal… Slovenia ·Art. 28 Controllers Processors Processing
ICO (UK) - ACRO Criminal Records Office ACRO Criminal Records Office, the processor, is a national police unit providing public services including Police Certificates, International Child Protection Certificates,… ACRO Criminal Records Office ·United Kingdom ·Art. 32 Controllers Personal Data Processors Aug 7, 2026
Finnish DPA finds 12-year retention of rental applicant data violates minimisation The DPA began investigating the storage periods of the personal data of housing applicants (the data subjects) contained in rental housing applications during a previous… TSV/1319/2025 ·Finland ·Tietosuojavaltuutettu Retention Period Storage Limitation Privacy by Design Aug 7, 2026
Finnish DPA examines anti-doping organization's GDPR compliance over public suspension An athlete (the data subject) gave a doping sample containing a low concentration of a banned substance in August 2020. The national anti-doping organisation (the controller)… TSV/179/2021 ·Finland ·Tietosuojavaltuutettu Supervisory Authorities Personal Data Retention Period Aug 4, 2026
Finnish DPA: disclosing pension accrual amount to disability evaluation physician A pension insurance company (the controller) had disclosure the amount of an applicant's (the data subject's) pension accrual in euros to a physician who conducted a medical… TSV/5059/2023 ·Finland ·Tietosuojavaltuutettu Personal Data Retention Period Supervisory Authorities Aug 4, 2026
€3,580 Court bailiff at a district court: Lack of appointment of data protection officer The Polish National Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) fined a district court bailiff €3,580 for failing to appoint a data protection officer, finding a violation of Articles… Poland ·UODO ·Art. 37, 38, 83 Supervisory Authorities Controllers Personal Data Jul 29, 2026
€3,500 A bailiff (the controller) appointed by a district court notified the DPA of a data breach in April 2023 According to the data breach notification, the controller also held the position of data protection officer within the bailiff's office from January 2020 to September 2025.… DKN.5131.24.2025 ·Poland ·UODO Notification Obligation Supervision Data Breaches Jul 29, 2026
€200,000 15/2026 The Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family (the controller), and the Hellenic Local Development and Local Government Company (the processor) notified the DPA that information… Greece ·HDPA ·Art. 5, 28, 32 Controllers Data Breaches Notification Obligation Jul 28, 2026
RON 30,000 Fine against There's an AI for that S.R.L In October 2025, the Romanian National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal –… Romania ·ANSPDCP ·Art. 4 Personal Data Supervision Controllers
€2,000 33/2020 The data subject was under the employment of the College for a certain period of time, during which two female students of the College filed a complaint against the complainant… Greece ·HDPA ·Art. 4, 5, 12 +8 Right to be Forgotten Personal Data Right of Access
€30,000 Emiglia-Romagna Regional Employment Agency: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) fined the Emiglia-Romagna Regional Employment Agency €30,000 for violations of Articles 5, 6, and 9 of the GDPR concerning an… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 5, 6, 9 Legitimate Interest Personal Data Processing Jul 23, 2026
€6,500 Top Secrert Investigazioni e sicurezza s.r.l.: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) fined Top Secrert Investigazioni e sicurezza s.r.l. €6,500 for violating the general data processing principles under Article… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 5, 13 Retention Period Storage Limitation Transparency Jul 23, 2026
The case involves media company RTI S.p.a (the data controller, now part of Mediaset S.p.a.) and its popular TV program Striscia la Notizia. The program aired a segment consisting of satirical, AI-generated deepfakes of… Case number: 577/2026 Internal number (from the DPA): 10281021 ·Italy ·Garante Transparency Personal Data Controllers Jul 23, 2026
€8,000 Municipality of Terralba: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) fined the Municipality of Terralba €8,000 for processing personal data without a sufficient legal basis. The Garante found that the… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 5, 6, 24 +2 Public Authority Personal Data Processing Jul 23, 2026
€9.5M Garante · 556/2026 Following numerous complaints and reports, the Italian DPA (Garante) investigated the telemarketing practices of TIM S.p.A. (the controller). The complaints concerned unsolicited… Italy ·Art. 5, 6, 7 +5 Personal Data Controllers Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Jul 23, 2026
Finnish DPA: requesting address, ID number and strong authentication for access request A company that provides comparison services for loans and financial products (the controller) received a loan application submitted on the data subject’s behalf in October 2022.… TSV/4630/2023 ·Finland ·Tietosuojavaltuutettu Identification Personal Data Retention Period Jul 22, 2026
HUF 2M NAIH-11443-3/2026 The DPA initiated an investigation into the GDPR compliance of an online store (the controller) processing the data of its customers (the data subjects) in April 2025. The… Hungary ·Art. 12, 13 Legitimate Interest Personal Data IP Address Jul 22, 2026
€300,000 CNIL fines EXTIA for failing to properly handle job applicant erasure requests EXTIA, the controller, is a French consulting company specialising in IT and engineering services. As part of its recruitment activities, the controller processed personal data of… France ·Art. 12, 17 Personal Data Right to be Forgotten Right to Restriction Jul 21, 2026
€500,000 Hôpital privé de la Loire: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) sanctioned Hôpital Privé de la Loire, a Ramsay Santé group hospital, following a June 2025 personal data breach in which an attacker… France ·CNIL ·Art. 32, 34 Data Breaches Notification Obligation Healthcare Jul 21, 2026
€12,000 Garante · 10254256 The data subject was an employee at a detention facility run by the Italian Ministry of Justice (the controller). Following an assessment by the occupational health physician, who… Italy ·Art. 4, 5, 6 +2 Personal Data Health Data Recipient
€20,000 Garante · 471/2026 The provincial Health Authority of Enna (the controller) published a resolution that contained the personal data of a data subject (specifically related to their judicial… Italy ·Art. 5, 6, 10 +1 Personal Data Retention Period Criminal Data Jul 18, 2026
APDCAT sanctions Madremanya City Council for inadequate redaction of sensitive data in On 8 May 2025, Madremanya City Council, acting as controller, published on its notice board two administrative acts concerning a tender procedure for the award of a social housing… PS-0036/2026 ·Spain ·Art. 5, 31 Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Personal Data Supervision Jul 17, 2026
€1M CNIL · SAN-2022-011 The controller is a limited liability company whose business is the supply and production of electricity and gas in France. Several data subjects sent complainants to the French… France ·Art. 12, 14, 15 +2 Personal Data Right to Object Right of Access
€16,000 10192784 The data subject, a professional registered with the OPI of Pisa, discovered while consulting the Public Register of Professionals online that the database included the… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 1, 5, 6 +3 Personal Data Fairness & Transparency Retention Period
AEPD · EXP202102529 A student handed in a complaint against the University of Navarra because they asked the students to fill in their vaccination status. The complainant understands this as a breach… EXP202102529 ·Spain ·Art. 4, 5, 6 +3 Consent Personal Data Healthcare
€50,000 Garante · 10128005 The Calabrian Regional Agency for Agricultural Development (the controller) implemented a remote work policy that required employees to use a time-tracking application called… Italy ·Art. 5, 6, 13 +3 Personal Data Monitoring DPIA
E/03783/2020 The Directorate for National Security of the Ministry of Interior issued guidelines for the police forces to monitor news and social networks to spot fake news and misinformation,… E/03783/2020 ·Spain ·AEPD Monitoring Personal Data Access Controls Jul 15, 2026
€2M Garante fines Lusha Systems Inc. over unauthorized B2B contact database Lusha Systems Inc. (the controller) operated a subscription-based platform that provided professional contact information through a business-to-business (B2B) database. It was a… Italy ·Art. 3, 5, 6 +2 Personal Data Direct Marketing Controllers Jul 14, 2026
€57,839 Fine against Ascendex Technology SRL The Romanian DPA (ANSPDCP) launched an investigation into the cryptocurrency exchange platform Ascendex Technology SRL (the controller). The DPA was notified by the French DPA… Romania ·ANSPDCP ·Art. 4, 12, 17 +1 Supervisory Authorities Supervision Personal Data
€1,198 A company (the controller) operates an online store An employee of the controller used a pirated and unlicensed software when creating the website. This software contained malicious code, which allowed a third person to access the… 0609-36/2026/7 ·Slovenia ·IP-RS Controllers Personal Data Data Breaches Jul 8, 2026
€23,750 Società Editoriale Il Fatto S.p.A.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) fined Società Editoriale Il Fatto S.p.A. €23,750 for processing personal data without a sufficient legal basis, in violation of… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 5 Personal Data Processing Transparency Jul 3, 2026
€158,000 Garante · 487/2026 Character Technologies, Inc (the controller) is a company established in the US that operates the site Character.AI. Character.AI is a generative AI service that allows users to… Italy ·Art. 3, 5, 12 +7 Personal Data Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Controllers Jul 3, 2026
€5.8M 483/2026 Several data subjects lodged complaints with the Italian DPA (Garante) after Hera Comm S.p.A., an energy supplier (the controller), declined to conclude electricity or gas… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 5, 12, 13 +3 Controllers Personal Data Processors Jul 3, 2026
€2,000 Municipality of San Genesio and Uniti: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) fined the Municipality of San Genesio and Uniti €2,000 for processing personal data without a sufficient legal basis. The Authority… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 5, 6, 9 Public Authority Personal Data Processing Jul 3, 2026
€2,000 Municipality of Villaputzu: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) fined the Municipality of Villaputzu €2,000 for processing personal data without a sufficient legal basis. The enforcement action… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 5, 6 Public Authority Personal Data Processing Jul 3, 2026
RON 26,172 The Romanian DPA (ANSPDCP) launched an investigation into a bank, Banca Transilvania S.A (the controller), following a data subject’s complaint. The data subject claimed that their personal data associated with their bank account had been processed without their… 02/07/2026 ·Romania ·Art. 32 Data Breaches Personal Data Security
IMY-2024-2904 The supervisory authority launched an investigation into the border control unit of the national police authority (the controller) at Arlanda Airport concerning the processing of… IMY-2024-2904 ·Sweden ·Art. 13 Personal Data Supervision Information Provision Modalities and Communication Methods Jul 3, 2026
Persónuvernd (Island) - 2025010358 The data subject was an employee of the enterprise BL ehf (the controller). When she started working there, she was provided with a computer set up by the controller’s IT… 2025010358 ·Iceland ·Art. 5, 32 Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Personal Data Monitoring Jul 1, 2026
2025010364 The DPA received a complaint from a data subject regarding the processing of their personal data by Borgarholtsskóli (a school and the controller) in connection with an anonymous… 2025010364 ·Iceland ·Persónuvernd Personal Data Fairness & Transparency Right to be Forgotten Jun 24, 2026
€450,000 VDAI fines medical company €450,000 for inadequate security measures in data breaches Two medical companies (the controllers) had fallen victim to data breaches where a third party had gained access to their internal systems containing both health data and other… Lithuania ·Art. 5, 24 Data Breaches Security Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Jun 19, 2026
€500 Estonian DPA: website republishing public authority documents independently liable under The controller was a private individual who operated a website that collected documents from public authorities’ document registers and made them easier to search and access… Estonia ·AKI ·Art. 5, 6, 9 +2 Legitimate Interest Personal Data Supervisory Authorities Jun 19, 2026
€5,000 Garante · 457/2026 The Municipality of Vasto (the controller) implemented a dedicated photo and video system for the purpose of detecting violations of the national provisions on traffic safety. A… Italy ·Art. 5, 6, 12 +2 Personal Data DPIA Fairness & Transparency Jun 18, 2026