Hungarian political party
Insufficient fulfilment of data breach notification obligations
Ngày ra quyết định
5 tháng 4, 2019
Thẩm quyền
Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and the Freedom of Information (NAIH)
HU
Ngành
Public Sector and Education
Quốc gia
HU
Luật
GDPRTrạng thái
FINALMô tả
NAIH imposed a fine of HUF 11,000,000 (EUR 34,375) on an undisclosed Hungarian political party for failing to notify the NAIH and relevant individuals about a data breach, and failing to document the breach according to GDPR Article 33.5. As mandated by law, the fine was based on 4% of the party's annual turnover and 2.65 % of its anticipated turnover for the coming year. The breach was the result of a cyber attack by an anonymous hacker who accessed and disclosed information on the vulnerability of the organisation’s system – a database of more than 6,000 individuals – and the command used for the attack. The system was vulnerable to attack because of a redirection problem with the organisation's webpage. After the attacker published the command, even people with low IT knowledge were able to retrieve information from the database.