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Europe’s GDPR cops dished out €1.2B in fines last year as data breaches piled up

GDPR fines pushed past the £1 billion (€1.2 billion) mark in 2025 as Europe’s regulators were deluged with more than 400 data breach notifications a day, according to a new survey that suggests the post-plateau era...

22 January 2026 · Regulatory action and litigation
22 January 2026
DII-2026-000153 sources ↓
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Category
Regulatory action and litigation
Source
DataBreaches.net
Date
22 January 2026
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Raidu Incident Detection

What happened

Not publicly disclosed.

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Category
Regulatory action and litigation

Sources and evidence

This record was researched and written by the Index, based on the following original reporting.

DataBreaches.net
Europe’s GDPR cops dished out €1.2B in fines last year as data breaches piled up
22 January 2026
dlapiper.com
the latest GDPR Fines and Data Breach Survey published by DLA Piper
theregister.com
The Register