Peadar Tóibín
Question:241. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance the number of data breaches experienced by his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [42365/23]
View answerTuesday, 3 October 2023
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My Department documents any personal data breaches that have occurred in the Department in accordance with its obligations under Article 33(5) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
According to records in my Department, there were no data breaches on the part of the Department between 2013 and 2018. The table below provides the number of data breaches by year since the introduction of the GDPR on 25 May 2018 to date.
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Year: |
Number of Data Breaches: |
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2018 |
1 |
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2019 |
8 |
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2020 |
10 |
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2021 |
6 |
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2022 |
5 |
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2023 |
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. Immediate follow-up action was taken by the Department in respect of all of the breaches which were fully resolved. Those reported to the Data Protection Commission were also case closed as a result of action taken in the Department.