Defined in the law · GDPR Art. 4(12)
Personal data breach
In plain English
A security failure that leads to personal data being destroyed, lost, altered, disclosed or accessed without authorisation, whether by accident or unlawfully.
The definition in the law
‘personal data breach’ means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed
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