Cyprus Police
€6,000
Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security
Decision Date
October 22, 2020
Authority
Cypriot Data Protection Commissioner
CY
Sector
Public Sector and Education
Country
CY
Law
GDPRStatus
FINALDescription
A police officer had unauthorized access to a database holding personal data about vehicle owners and used the database for non-official purposes to pass information from the database to a third party. In this respect, the organizational and technical measures taken by the police to prevent unauthorized access to the database were insufficient to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of personal data to third parties.
Legal Citations
Art. 32
Issues & Violations
Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security