Disclosure Scotland data protection breach statistics: FOI release

Information requested

1) A yearly (2018/2019/2020/2021) breakdown of the number of data protection breaches under GDPR recorded by the organisation since April 1, 2018.

2) A yearly breakdown of the number of data protection breaches under GDPR reported to the Information Commissioner's Office by the organisation since April 1, 2018.

3) For each year, please provide the number of data protection breaches which took longer than 72 hours to be reported to the ICO.

4) Please also provide a yearly breakdown of the number of each type of data protection breach, described as a ‘Confidentiality breach’ – where there is an unauthorised or accidental disclosure of, or access to, personal data; an ‘Availability breach’ – where there is an accidental or unauthorised loss of access to, or destruction of, personal data, which could be permanent or temporary; or an ‘Integrity breach’ – where there is an unauthorised or accidental alteration of personal data. as described by the Law Society of Scotland.

Response

1) A yearly (2018/2019/2020/2021) breakdown of the number of data protection breaches under GDPR recorded by the organisation since April 1, 2018.

Year	Total
2018	16
2019	91
2020	82
2021*	20

*Until 11 May 2021, date of FOI request.

2) A yearly breakdown of the number of data protection breaches under GDPR reported to the Information Commissioner's Office by the organisation since April 1, 2018.

Year	Reported to ICO
2018	4
2019	0
2020	2
2021*	1

*Until 11 May 2021, date of FOI request.

3) For each year, please provide the number of data protection breaches which took longer than 72 hours to be reported to the ICO.

All data breaches notified to the ICO were reported within 72 hours.

4) Please also provide a yearly breakdown of the number of each type of data protection breach, described as a ‘Confidentiality breach’ – where there is an unauthorised or accidental disclosure of, or access to, personal data; an ‘Availability breach’ – where there is an accidental or unauthorised loss of access to, or destruction of, personal data, which could be permanent or temporary; or an ‘Integrity breach’ – where there is an unauthorised or accidental alteration of personal data. as described by the Law Society of Scotland.

	2018	2019	2020	2021*
Confidentiality Breach	14	81	70	17
Availability Breach	1	2	2	0
Integrity Breach	1	8	10	3

*Until 11 May 2021, date of FOI request.

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