UCD fined €70k by data watchdog after email accounts' log-in details posted online

The investigation stemmed from the college self-reporting that email accounts had been compromised and were found to have been sending spam.

One of the country’s leading universities has been fined €70,000 by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) after log-in details for some of its email accounts were posted online.

University College Dublin has been officially reprimanded and ordered to bring its processes up to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) standard, together with the fine, for seven separate personal data breaches dating between August 2018 and January 2019.