Number of personal data breaches in Europe 2018-2022, by country

Published by Ani Petrosyan, Nov 28, 2022
Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) implementation Europe-wide on the 25th of May 2018, the highest number of personal data breaches as of January 2022 were reported in Germany, a total of around 106,000. The Netherlands ranked second, with more than 92,000 personal data breach notifications.

Total number of personal data breaches in Europe from 25 May 2018 to 27 January 2022, by country

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Release date

January 2022

Region

Europe

Survey time period

May 25, 2018 to January 27, 2022

Special properties

European Economic Area (EEA) and the UK

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "Not all the countries covered by this report make breach notification statistics publicly available, and many provided data for only part of the period covered by this report. We have, therefore, had to extrapolate the data to cover the full period. It is also possible that some of the breaches reported relate to the regime before GDPR."

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