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A record breaking number of data breaches affecting 1,536 people were reported in the first three months of the year.
A total of 42 personal data breaches were reported to the Office of the Data Protection Authority.
This is the highest number ever reported in one quarter.
“It is so important to view security safeguards as a dynamic rather than static responsibility,” said the Bailiwick’s Data Protection Commissioner, Brent Homan.
“Organisations can think of breach preparedness like cruise control of a car.
“You can’t set it and then jump in the back seat and relax. You must steer carefully, be aware of present dangers to you, your passengers and other road users and be prepared to confront unknown threats awaiting you at the turn of the road.
“Working with people’s data is no different, and we hope that sharing the data-driven insights from the breaches reported locally can help local organisations rapidly and effectively respond when a breach occurs.”
15 breaches involved ‘special category data’ - information relating to people’s health, biometrics, trade union membership, and alleged criminal activity.
13 out of the 42 breaches met the risk criteria where the organisation must tell those people whose data had been affected, but only only five led to the people at risk being told.
Emails containing personal data being sent to the wrong person continues to be the most common breach, in this quarter this accounted for 23 of 42 incidents.
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