Social Media Chat Platform
- Country
- Germany
- Fine
- 20,000 EUR
- Date
- 2018-11-21
- Sector
- Private Sector
- Articles
- Art. 32 GDPR
Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security
After a hacker attack in July, the personal data of approximately 330,000 users, such as passwords and e-mail addresses, became known. The controller has notified this personal data breach (Art. 4 Subsect. 12 GDPR) according to Art. 33 GDPR to the respective data protection authority and also cooperated with the data protection authority. Due to the cooperation and the performance of the controller, the fine was only 20.000,00 Authority: Data Protection Authority of Baden-Wuerttemberg
Reported by: Derra, Meyer & Partner