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Irish retail bank PTSB gets €277,500 privacy fine for account security breaches

( May 8, 2026, 13:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Irish retail bank Permanent TSB, or PTSB, has been fined a total of €277,500 by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission. The regulator said in press release on Friday that it had found the lender failed to implement appropriate security measures at its Open24 Contact Centre, enabling fraudsters posing as customers to access and alter account details, and failed to notify the breaches within deadlines required under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.The press release follows....

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