GDPR: CNIL report on data breaches – February 2022

Introduction

In 2022-02, 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: 637 times
– Administrative and support services activities: 152 times
– Human health and social action: 89 times
– Specialized, scientific and technical activities: 54 times
– Financial and insurance activities: 50 times
– Water production and distribution; sanitation, waste management and depollution: 28 times
– Other service activities: 26 times
– Information and communication: 25 times
– Teaching: 17 times
– Real estate activities: 15 times
– Trade; repair of automobiles and motorcycles: 14 times
– Arts, entertainment and recreational activities: 12 times
– Transportation and storage: 10 times
– Manufacturing industry: 8 times
– Production and distribution of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning: 5 times
– Construction: 3 times
– Accommodation and catering: 2 times

Nature of violations

The types of violations encountered this month are:
– Loss of privacy: 1090 times
– Loss of integrity: 56 times
– Loss of availability: 225 times

Number of people impacted

The number of people affected by these incidents is distributed as follows:
– Between 6 and 50 people: 348 times
– Between 301 and 5000 people: 259 times
– Between 51 and 300 people: 249 times
– Between 0 and 5 people: 166 times
– More than 5000 people: 125 times

Typologies of impacted data

The data typologies affected by the breaches are:
– Marital status (eg: name: 908 times
– gender: 908 times
– date of birth: 908 times
– age...): 908 times
– NIR (Directory Registration Number): 661 times
– Contact details (e.g. postal or email address: 897 times
– landline or mobile phone numbers...): 897 times
– Identification or access data (e.g. identifier: 475 times
– password: 475 times
– customer number...): 475 times
– Data relating to financial information (e.g. income: 656 times
– credit card number: 656 times
– bank details): 656 times
– economical: 656 times
– Official documents (Passports: 626 times
– ID: 626 times
– etc.): 626 times
– The breach concerns other data: 69 times
– The data concerned is not known at the moment: 112 times
– Data relating to offenses: 308 times
– convictions: 308 times
– security measures: 308 times
– Location data: 81 times

Origins of incidents

The main causes of these violations are:
– Personal data sent to the wrong recipient: 42 times
– Hacking: 983 times
– malware (e.g. ransomware) and/or phishing: 983 times
– Unvoluntary publication of information: 35 times
– Bad person data displayed on customer portal: 14 times
– Equipment lost or stolen: 26 times
– Other: 66 times
– Lost paper: 6 times
– stolen or left accessible in an unsecured location: 6 times
– Personal information disclosed verbally: 2 times
– Mail lost or opened before being returned to sender: 1 time

Conclusion

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