Covid-19 test center

€2,700

Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security

Beslissingsdatum

1 januari 2022

Autoriteit

Data Protection Authority of Hamburg

DE

Sector

Health Care

Land

DE

Wet

GDPR

Status

FINAL

Beschrijving

The DPA of Hamburg has imposed a fine of EUR 2,700 on a Covid-19 test center. The test center had send the data subjects an unencrypted e-mail containing a URL that allowed them to access the test result without taking any further security measures. In some cases, the download link was structured in a way that led to the download of a PDF file with the file name corresponding to the last name of the person tested. With knowledge of the directory path, it was therefore possible to view third-party test results.

Juridische citaten

Art. 32 (1)

Problemen en overtredingen

Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security

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