Data Protection Authority of Ireland · 22 November 2024
Maynooth University
Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security
Fine€40,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Data Protection Authority of Ireland
- Decided
- 22 November 2024
- Country
- Ireland
- Sector
- Public Sector and Education
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2024/IE/001
What happened
The DPA fined a university €40,000 for failing to implement adequate security measures and not notifying them in time of a data breach after a compromised email account resulted in an employee falling victim to financial fraud.
Summary from the GDPRhub page for this decision, written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Art. 5Principles relating to processing of personal data5(1)(f)Read →
- Art. 32Security of processing32(1)Read →
- Art. 33Notification of a personal data breach to the supervisory authority33(1)Read →
- Data breach
- Data principles
- Data security
Sources
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