Adobe(s adbe)’s doozy of a data breach last year, in which someone stole the details of 38 million people, has attracted the attention of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC).

The DPC, Billy Hawkes, is in the rather odd position of regulating much of the world’s online privacy. Tax breaks and fairly light-touch data protection regulation make Ireland the go-to international headquarters destination for many large companies ranging from Facebook(s fb) to Apple(s aapl) and, of course, Adobe – Adobe Ireland has responsibility for the data of all the company’s customers outside North America.

The DPC is now investigating the massive Adobe theft, following “a number of complaints from British users”. It’s not clear yet what offense Adobe might have committed, though it would probably relate to not sufficiently securing user data. A spokeswoman for the DPC’s office told me on Wednesday that Adobe had reported the breach to it…