The phrase "a personal data breach" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing incidents where personal information is accessed or disclosed without authorization.
Example: "The company reported a personal data breach that compromised the information of thousands of customers."
Alternatives: "an individual data breach" or "a private data breach."
Charities should make sure you have the right procedures in place to detect, report and investigate a personal data breach.
The company did not believe it was under obligation to report this incident as a personal data breach under either European or U.S. law.
Timely Notification of a Personal Data Breach: If a personal data breach occurs, your organisation only has 72 hours to report this breach to your customers, data controllers, and the Information Commissioner's Office (for the UK).
In addition to the obligations to communicate a personal data breach to the data subject, data breaches must be notified within 72 h to the supervisory authority.
A personal data breach is defined under the Regulation as "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".
But the expectation is clearly that data controllers must disclose a personal data breach to a national supervisor data authority, at the very least, radically sooner than the '40 days later' which Equifax reckons is an acceptable disclosure timeframe.
"Generally, as anticipated, we have seen a rise in personal data breach reports from organizations," said an ICO spokesperson.
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.
There are some caveats to this portion (Article 33) of the regulation (phrases like "without undue delay and, where feasible", and some potential for exclusion based on the type of data being breached ("unless the personal data breach is unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons").
There are some caveats to this portion (Article 33) of the regulation (phrases like "without undue delay and, where feasible", and some potential for exclusion based on the type of data being breached ("unless the personal data breach is unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons").
"In general terms the GDPR's rules around personal data breach reporting recognize that it will not always be possible to investigate a breach fully within 72 hours to understand exactly what has happened and what needs to be done to mitigate it.
