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UK: Data security incident trends

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Dissent

From the Information Commissioner’s Office, an interesting report with data for Q1 of 2016/17 by sector and attack type.

Not surprisingly, the greatest number of breaches were reported by the healthcare sector:

data-security-incidents-by-sector

Analysis of the types of health data security incidents revealed that the most common sources were errors involving paper records, such as mailing or faxing errors, or loss or theft of paperwork:

health-data-security-incident-typesHealth data security incidents, which had decreased in 2015, appear to be increasing again:

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Apart from healthcare, the general business and local government sectors showed the sharpest increase in reported incidents:

data-security-incidents-by-sector-over-time

Cyber-incidents were the fifth most frequent source of a data security incident:

data-security-incidents-by-type

An analysis of the cyber incidents revealed that human error and exfiltration accounted for approximately half of reported incidents:

cyber-incidents-by-type

You can find additional details and analyses on the ICO’s web site.

Related posts:

  • 2016: Healthcare data breaches in review, Part 2
  • Health Data Breaches in 2017: The Year in Review
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