As of April 2024, the most significant data privacy violation fine worldwide was for social media giant Meta. In May 2023, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) of Ireland decided to fine the company with 1.2 billion euros or 1.3 billion U.S. dollars. The Chinese vehicle-for rent company Didi Global ranked second. In July 2022, China's data privacy regulator fined the company 8.026 billion Chinese yuan or 1.19 billion U.S. dollars. The 2021 Amazon fine issued by Luxembourg's data privacy regulation authorities was 877 million U.S. dollars and was the third-biggest data breach fine as of the measured month. The 2019 fine of 575 million U.S. dollars to Equifax followed. In this incident, because of unpatched vulnerabilities, nearly 150 million people were affected, which caused the American consumer credit reporting agency to pay at least 575 million U.S. dollars.
Largest data privacy violation fines, penalties, settlements worldwide as of April 2024
(in million U.S. dollars)
Characteristic
Fine in million U.S. dollars
Meta (May 2023)
1,300
Didi Global (2022 fine)
1,190
Amazon (2021 fine)
877
Equifax (2019 fine following 2017 breach)
575
Meta (Facebook, Instagram 2023 fine)
413
Instagram (2022 fine)
403
TikTok (2023 fine)
370
T-mobile (2022 fine following 2021 breach)
350
Meta (2022 fine)
277
WhatsApp (2021 fine)
255
Home Depot (2016 to 2020 fine following 2014 breach)
200
Capital One (2021 fine following 2019 breach)
190
Uber (2018 fine following 2016 breach)
148
Morgan Stanley (2022 fine following 2016 and 2019 breaches)
The source adds the following information: "Equifax had already been fined £500,000 [~$625,000] in the UK for the 2017 breach, which was the maximum fine allowed under the pre-GDPR Data Protection Act 1998."
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