GDPR: CNIL report on data breaches – January 2023

Introduction

In 2023-01, 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:
– Specialized, scientific and technical activities: 51 times
– Public administration: 47 times
– Human health and social action: 42 times
– Financial and insurance activities: 30 times
– Trade; repair of automobiles and motorcycles: 24 times
– Information and communication: 17 times
– Administrative and support services activities: 17 times
– Teaching: 16 times
– Other service activities: 14 times
– Manufacturing industry: 12 times
– Transportation and storage: 11 times
– Real estate activities: 8 times
– Accommodation and catering: 8 times
– Construction: 4 times
– Production and distribution of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning: 3 times
– Water production and distribution; sanitation, waste management and depollution: 3 times

Nature of violations

The types of violations encountered this month are:
– Loss of privacy: 289 times
– Loss of integrity: 57 times
– Loss of availability: 69 times

Number of people impacted

The number of people affected by these incidents is distributed as follows:
– Between 0 and 5 people: 81 times
– Between 301 and 5000 people: 81 times
– Between 6 and 50 people: 52 times
– Between 51 and 300 people: 47 times
– More than 5000 people: 46 times

Typologies of impacted data

The data typologies affected by the breaches are:
– The data concerned is not known at the moment: 29 times
– Marital status (eg: name: 238 times
– gender: 238 times
– date of birth: 238 times
– age...): 238 times
– NIR (Directory Registration Number): 58 times
– Contact details (e.g. postal or email address: 220 times
– landline or mobile phone numbers...): 220 times
– Identification or access data (e.g. identifier: 114 times
– password: 114 times
– customer number...): 114 times
– Data relating to financial information (e.g. income: 94 times
– credit card number: 94 times
– bank details): 94 times
– economical: 94 times
– Official documents (Passports: 54 times
– ID: 54 times
– etc.): 54 times
– Location data: 23 times
– The breach concerns other data: 66 times
– Data relating to offenses: 7 times
– convictions: 7 times
– security measures: 7 times

Origins of incidents

The main causes of these violations are:
– Equipment lost or stolen: 21 times
– Other: 72 times
– Hacking: 144 times
– malware (e.g. ransomware) and/or phishing: 144 times
– Unvoluntary publication of information: 32 times
– Lost paper: 12 times
– stolen or left accessible in an unsecured location: 12 times
– Bad person data displayed on customer portal: 10 times
– Personal data sent to the wrong recipient: 38 times
– Personal information disclosed verbally: 3 times
– Disposal of paper documents containing personal data without physical destruction: 1 time

Conclusion

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