Data security company ViaSat UK has filed an FoI (freedom of information) request for data breach statistics. UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) handed out 20 penalties in response to 1150 self-reported breaches. ViaSat’s complaint in 2012 was that the private sector seemed under-represented in the statistics on UK data breach penalties, with just one penalty imposed in 263 self-report cases, compared to eight penalties in 467 self-reporting data breaches from the public sector.”]
Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/04/26/how-effective-are-data-protection-regulations/