The Irish Data Protection Commission published the official number of complaints and data security breaches reported to the Data Protection Authority (DPA) since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enacted on May 25, 2018. While 3,188 data breaches were reported to each EU member’s DPA on average since the GDPR came into effect in the European Union, the Irish data watchdog says that it received an almost double 5,818 valid data security breach notifications. Ireland’s DPC also published the number of. complaints filed during the past year, as well as the. number of opened investigations into multinational technology companies and their compliance with the.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ireland-gets-about-double-the-average-breach-reports-under-gdpr/