Written answers
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Data Protection
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of data breaches experienced by his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024; if a breakdown will be provided on the nature of the breaches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41737/24]
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018 and my Department began recording data breaches from that date. The following table outlines the number of data breaches per year.
| Year | Total |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 0 |
| 2019 | 12 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2021 | 10 |
| 2022 | 19 |
| 2023 | 25 |
| 2024 (to date) | 27 |
The nature of these breaches fall into the following four broad categories and the number of breaches are shown alongside:
- personal data being shared accidentally with unintended recipients (67)
- the loss or theft of laptop, phone or other device (19)
- accidental exposure / potential exposure of personal data to unauthorised persons (13)
- systems being compromised (1)
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