Since 1 January 2016, companies are obliged to data breaches to report to the Authority Personal data (AP). Now the duty a year, the AP that there 5.500 notifications are received. There are as a result of all those notifications are dozens of investigations opened.
by Far the majority of reports come from vulnerable sectors where a lot of sensitive personal data to be exchanged. Most of the leaks, a total of 29 percent of all reports, took place in the sector health & well-being (o.a. health insurers, hospitals).
Other sectors in which many of the data breaches reported by 17 percent of the financial service (d.a. banks, insurance companies) and 15 percent for the public administration (including municipalities). Usually it is a fairly small notifications, which, according to the AP regularly only one person to relate to. Sometimes, however, it is more involved, where in some cases even to a few hundreds of thousands of people.
most of The notifications turning further to accidents in which data is unintentionally in the wrong place. According to the Authority any personal data is, for example, to "a misdirected letter, an e-mail to the wrong recipient, or if a customer in a customer portal, the data from someone else".
Of the 5500 reports that the AP got in, there are more than 4,000 reviewed and sometimes additional investigation. As a result, have received some 100 organisations a warning and walk there in a few dozen cases a more in-depth studies.
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