Peadar Tóibín
Question:482. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of data breaches experienced by his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [42359/23]
View answerTuesday, 3 October 2023
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The numbers of data breaches recorded by my Department, since 2016, are as outlined in the table below. It should be noted that no records of data breaches were maintained before this time. The current operational procedure is that the majority of low-risk data breaches are not reported to the Data Protection Commission (DPC) in line with DPC guidance on this issue.
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2016 |
05 |
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2017 |
10 |
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2018 |
35 |
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2019 |
50 |
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2020 |
54 |
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2021 |
84 |
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2022 |
62 |
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2023 (to date) |
68 |