Written answers
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Department of An Taoiseach
Data Protection
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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133. To ask the Taoiseach the number of data breaches experienced by his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [42374/23]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Please see the accompanying table setting out two instances of a data breach identified within the Department during the past decade. In both cases the Department provided an explanation and apology to the two individuals affected with one occurring in 2016 (pre GDPR) and one in 2022.
YEAR | Department of the Taoiseach No. of Personal Data Breaches |
---|---|
2013 | 0 |
2014 | 0 |
2015 | 0 |
2016 | 1 |
2017 | 0 |
2018 | 0 |
2019 | 0 |
2020 | 0 |
2021 | 0 |
2022 | 1 |
2023 to date | 0 |
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