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Examples of data breaches

Examples of data breaches

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According to Article 33 GDPR so-called "personal data breaches" must be reported to the supervisory authority. Robin Data publishes current data breaches in this category to raise awareness. Because if the topic is neglected Data protectionyou could be subject to heavy fines.

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Data breach at Mercedes Benz

Several customers of the application Mercedes-Me got temporarily the data of other users displayed. Only customers from the USA were affected.
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30.000 Euro fine for defective cookie banner

Shortly after the ruling of the European Court of Justice, the Spanish regulatory authority imposed the first fine on the airline Vueling.
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Data breach and fine for Greek company

The Greek data protection authority has imposed a fine of EUR 200 000 on the telecommunications operator OTE.
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Data breach at the city council of Magdeburg

The cause is the failure of computer programs. No personal data has been passed on to third parties, the data protection commissioner of the state of Saxony-Anhalt has been informed.
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Data breach at Deutsche Bahn

In front of the Düsseldorf airport train station several boxes of files were found, which contained data of employees and passengers.
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Data breach: police headquarters Neubrandenburg

Police officer confuses e-mail address with press distribution list and sends to 158 media representatives at the request of a private individual.
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Data breach in Ecuador

Personal data of 17 million people from Ecuador published online on servers of Elasticsearch Also included was information about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
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Data breach: health data

Highly sensitive medical data stored worldwide on servers without password protection The approximately 16 million data records come from 50 countries worldwide. In Germany, 13,000 patients are affected.
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Data range Facebook phone numbers

Around 420 million data records, including telephone numbers of Facebook users, primarily from the USA, Great Britain and Vietnam, were freely accessible on the Internet.
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Apple IPhone data failure

Apple's IPhones could apparently be spied on for more than 2 years. For example, a woman claiming to be Chinese spyware...
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