GDPR: CNIL report on data breaches – June 2018

Introduction

In 2018-06, 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:
– Accommodation and catering: 176 times
– Specialized, scientific and technical activities: 30 times
– Financial and insurance activities: 15 times
– Information and communication: 14 times
– Administrative and support services activities: 12 times
– Public administration: 12 times
– Trade; repair of automobiles and motorcycles: 11 times
– Human health and social action: 10 times
– Teaching: 9 times
– Arts, entertainment and recreational activities: 8 times
– Manufacturing industry: 7 times
– Real estate activities: 5 times
– Other service activities: 4 times
– Transportation and storage: 2 times
– Water production and distribution; sanitation, waste management and depollution: 2 times
– Production and distribution of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning: 2 times
– Construction: 1 time
– Agriculture, forestry and fishing: 1 time

Nature of violations

The types of violations encountered this month are:
– Loss of privacy: 311 times
– Loss of availability: 15 times
– Loss of integrity: 15 times

Number of people impacted

The number of people affected by these incidents is distributed as follows:
– Between 301 and 5000 people: 135 times
– Between 51 and 300 people: 85 times
– Between 6 and 50 people: 42 times
– More than 5000 people: 30 times
– Between 0 and 5 people: 29 times

Typologies of impacted data

The data typologies affected by the breaches are:
– Marital status (eg: name: 259 times
– gender: 259 times
– date of birth: 259 times
– age...): 259 times
– Contact details (e.g. postal or email address: 242 times
– landline or mobile phone numbers...): 242 times
– Data relating to financial information (e.g. income: 184 times
– credit card number: 184 times
– bank details): 184 times
– economical: 184 times
– Official documents (Passports: 18 times
– ID: 18 times
– etc.): 18 times
– Identification or access data (e.g. identifier: 44 times
– password: 44 times
– customer number...): 44 times
– The breach concerns other data: 104 times
– The data concerned is not known at the moment: 16 times
– Data relating to offenses: 7 times
– convictions: 7 times
– security measures: 7 times
– Location data: 13 times
– NIR (Directory Registration Number): 16 times

Origins of incidents

The main causes of these violations are:
– Equipment lost or stolen: 17 times
– Hacking: 241 times
– malware (e.g. ransomware) and/or phishing: 241 times
– Unvoluntary publication of information: 19 times
– Personal data sent to the wrong recipient: 17 times
– Lost paper: 5 times
– stolen or left accessible in an unsecured location: 5 times
– Other: 29 times
– Personal information disclosed verbally: 4 times
– Data of the wrong person displayed on the customer portal: 7 times
– Mail lost or opened before being returned to sender: 1 time

Conclusion

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