Breach report 2020

17 November 2020

We are pleased to present the report of breaches in personal data protection for the period May 2019 - May 2020.

We are based on a sample of 454 personal data administrators, permanently serviced by companies associated with ZFODO.

The report presents statistics on the following areas:

  1. Average number of breaches per organization,
  2. Number of breaches reported to the regulator,
  3. Number of breaches reported to data subjects,
  4. Number of breaches by industry,
  5. Breaches by source of violations,
  6. Willfulness and inadvertence of breaches,
  7. Breaches by source - personal and non-personal
  8. The most frequently breached personal data,
  9. The trend of violations