Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) · 4 July 2024
Postel S.p.A
Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security
Fine€900,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante)
- Decided
- 4 July 2024
- Country
- Italy
- Sector
- Not given
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2024/IT/015
What happened
The DPA fined a subsidiary of Poste Italiane €900,000 after a data breach led to the disclosure of employees' data. The controller did not resolve two vulnerabilities in its IT system, even though they had been known for almost a year.
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. 25Data protection by design and by defaultRead →
- Art. 32Security of processingRead →
- Art. 33Notification of a personal data breach to the supervisory authorityRead →
- Accountability
- Data breach
- Data principles
- Data security
Sources
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