GDPR: CNIL report on data breaches – April 2022

Introduction

In 2022-04, several personal data breaches were reported to the CNIL, affecting various sectors of activity. These incidents highlighted the vulnerability of personal data and the importance of adequate protection.

Sectors concerned

The sectors most affected by data breaches are:
– Public administration: 56 times
– Financial and insurance activities: 42 times
– Specialized, scientific and technical activities: 32 times
– Human health and social action: 28 times
– Information and communication: 17 times
– Trade; repair of automobiles and motorcycles: 16 times
– Manufacturing industry: 15 times
– Administrative and support services activities: 14 times
– Transportation and storage: 14 times
– Teaching: 8 times
– Real estate activities: 6 times
– Construction: 4 times
– Production and distribution of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning: 2 times
– Other service activities: 1 time
– Agriculture, forestry and fishing: 1 time
– Arts, entertainment and recreational activities: 1 time
– Water production and distribution; sanitation, waste management and depollution: 1 time

Nature of violations

The types of violations encountered this month are:
– Loss of privacy: 225 times
– Loss of availability: 54 times
– Loss of integrity: 30 times

Number of people impacted

The number of people affected by these incidents is distributed as follows:
– Between 0 and 5 people: 75 times
– Between 301 and 5000 people: 63 times
– Between 6 and 50 people: 58 times
– Between 51 and 300 people: 47 times
– More than 5000 people: 15 times

Typologies of impacted data

The data typologies affected by the breaches are:
– Marital status (eg: name: 196 times
– gender: 196 times
– date of birth: 196 times
– age...): 196 times
– Contact details (e.g. postal or email address: 195 times
– landline or mobile phone numbers...): 195 times
– Identification or access data (e.g. identifier: 69 times
– password: 69 times
– customer number...): 69 times
– Data relating to financial information (e.g. income: 79 times
– credit card number: 79 times
– bank details): 79 times
– economical: 79 times
– NIR (Directory Registration Number): 44 times
– Official documents (Passports: 41 times
– ID: 41 times
– etc.): 41 times
– The data concerned is not known at the moment: 26 times
– The breach concerns other data: 47 times
– Location data: 21 times
– Data relating to offenses: 6 times
– convictions: 6 times
– security measures: 6 times

Origins of incidents

The main causes of these violations are:
– Hacking: 97 times
– malware (e.g. ransomware) and/or phishing: 97 times
– Unvoluntary publication of information: 49 times
– Bad person data displayed on customer portal: 17 times
– Equipment lost or stolen: 15 times
– Other: 58 times
– Personal data sent to the wrong recipient: 35 times
– Lost paper: 11 times
– stolen or left accessible in an unsecured location: 11 times
– Mail lost or opened before being returned to sender: 3 times

Conclusion

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Data on notifications to the CNIL.