Company in the financial sector

€80,000

Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security

Decision Date

12 de abril de 2019

Authority

Data Protection Authority of Baden-Wuerttemberg

DE

Sector

Finance, Insurance and Consulting

Country

DE

Law

GDPR

Status

FINAL

Description

In an administrative decision dated 12 April 2019, the authority imposed a fine of 80,000 euros on a medium-sized financial services company. This company had failed to take the necessary care to preserve the integrity and confidentiality of information within the meaning of Art. 5 para. 1 lit. f GDPR when disposing of documents containing personal data of two customers. Thus, without prior anonymisation, the papers were disposed of in the general waste paper recycling system, where the documents were found by a neighbour.

Legal Citations

Art. 5Art. 32

Issues & Violations

Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security

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