Data Protection Authority of Ireland · 10 December 2025
University of Limerick
Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security
Fine€98,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Data Protection Authority of Ireland
- Decided
- 10 December 2025
- Country
- Ireland
- Sector
- Public Sector and Education
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2025/IE/004
What happened
The DPA reprimanded and fined a university €98,000 following six data breaches after it failed to take appropriate measures to ensure security of processing, to keep a record of processing activities, and to comply with its notification obligations.
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. 30Records of processing activities30(1)Read →
- Art. 32Security of processing32(1)Read →
- Art. 33Notification of a personal data breach to the supervisory authority33(1)Read →
- Art. 34Communication of a personal data breach to the data subject34(1)Read →
- Data breach
- Data principles
- Data security
Sources
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