Fintech & Payments

Source: Data Protection Commission Ireland, 2024 Annual Report, 2024

Scope: Official Data Protection Commission Ireland 2024 Annual Report context. All values describe valid breach notifications and regulatory activity at the Irish DPC in 2024. Valid breach notifications (7,781) refer to notifications received and validated by the DPC only. The 11% increase refers to year-on-year change in valid breach notifications received by the DPC only. The 81% concluded figure refers to the proportion of valid breach notifications processed to conclusion by the DPC within the calendar year only. The 50% wrong-recipient figure refers to the breakdown of breach notification type received by the DPC only and must not be presented as the total share of all Irish data breaches caused by misdirected communications. None of these values may be presented as total Ireland cyberattack counts, national cybercrime totals, successful compromise counts, all Irish organisations affected, private-sector cyberattack prevalence, or all national cyber incidents.

Methodology: Official Irish DPC 2024 valid breach-notification and regulatory handling context. The admitted indicators describe: valid breach notifications (7,781); year-on-year increase in valid breach notifications (11%); proportion of 2024 breach notifications concluded by year-end (81%); and proportion of breach notifications that were unauthorised disclosures caused by correspondence to the wrong recipient (50%). These values must not be presented as total Ireland cyberattack counts, national cybercrime totals, successful compromise counts, all Irish organisations affected, private-sector cyberattack prevalence, or all national cyber incidents.