Peadar Tóibín
Question:305. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance the number of data breaches suffered by his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [26098/21]
View answerTuesday, 18 May 2021
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Written answers
There were 21 data protection breaches in total identified in the Department of Finance from 2016 to 2021 (to date). See below a table containing the number of data breaches that occurred in each year:
|
Year: |
Number of Data Breaches: |
|
2016 |
Nil |
|
2017 |
Nil |
|
2018 |
1 |
|
2019 |
8 |
|
2020 |
10 |
|
2021 |
2 |
The Department has an internal personal data breach reporting protocol. All breaches must be formally notified to the Department’s Data Protection Officer for assessment.