Social Protection responsible for over half of 5,000 data breaches by Government departments

The Department of Social Protection has breached  GDPR regulations 2,735 times since 2018. File photo

Government departments have been responsible for more than 5,000 data breaches since new GDPR regulations came into effect in 2018.

New information shows that there have been a total of 5,105 data breaches across all Government departments, including a significant amount of incidents of personal information being erroneously provided to third parties.