Breaches

Data protection breaches can comprise a number of scenarios where an organisation fails to protect the personal data of individuals that they have been made responsible of.

Personal data is defined by the ICO as:

“any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’)… such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person”.

In the fast-moving technological climate that we live in, criminals’ techniques are growing more sophisticated, which makes the protection of personal data a top priority for companies who have been entrusted with such information.

A data protection breach can come as the result of a cyber attack from a criminal organisation, but it can also come as a result of an error made by a data controller or processor. GDPR related breaches are now becoming much more common, those include personal data being uploaded to a public forum and mass-email send outs including personal data.

If you’ve been affected by one of the above breaches, or something similar, then please get in touch via the contact form below or our LiveChat.