Peadar Tóibín
Question:712. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of data breaches suffered by his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [26092/21]
View answerTuesday, 18 May 2021
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The number of data breaches recorded by my Department, since 2016, are outlined in the table below. The current operational procedure is that low risk breaches are not reported to the Data Protection Commission (DPC).
|
Year |
No. |
|
2016 |
5 |
|
2017 |
10 |
|
2018 |
35 |
|
2019 |
50 |
|
2020 |
54 |
|
2021 (to date) |
35 |