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Examples of data breaches

Examples of data breaches

What happens in data protection

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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Swiss health insurance company sends statements incorrectly

Once again, CSS billing data has been sent to the wrong customers via the online portal of the Swiss health insurance company.
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Data failure Bavarian Red Cross

The State Office for Data Protection Supervision has started investigations against the BRK regarding a possible transfer of health data to Facebook.
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Data breakdown school Sweden

The Swedish Data Protection Agency imposes its first fine for GDPR violation on a school in Skelleftea.
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Data breach Mastercard

Data such as mobile phone numbers, addresses and birthdays of almost 90,000 customers of the bonus program Priceless Specials have appeared on the Internet.
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Data protection breakdown affects police officers

Data breakdown at the police in Thuringia. In the Unstrut-Hainich office, personal data of 134 police officers were transmitted unencrypted.
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Data breach Biometric data

Serious data breach at Suprema, the Korean security solutions manufacturer. Fingerprint and facial recognition data was publicly available.
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Plauen District Office Office Protection of the Constitution

Personal data of citizens who registered for meetings were reported. A violation of data protection and freedom of assembly.
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Twitter user data advertisers

Information on the country code and whether and when ads were viewed was passed on. According to Twitter, the data mishap was fixed on 05.08.2019.
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Datenpanne Spielemesse E3

The list contained 2000 records of trade visitors. Journalist Sophia Narwitz drew attention to the data discrepancy in a YouTube video.
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100 million records stolen from US bank

Most of the data captured by a hacker attack originates from credit card applications and existing credit cards of the bank's customers.
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35,000 euros fine for violation of three Swedish laws at once. Information about creditworthiness published.
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