ALPHA BREACH INDEX Personal data breaches notified in Denmark under the GDPR
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At a glance

Summary, headline figures, and notified breaches per month
Since May 2018
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Headline figures · selected period
Composition · top categories
Total breaches
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Last 12 complete months
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Highest month
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Top incident type
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Most affected industry
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Sector split
share of all
Alpha Breach Index · monthly volume Since May 2018

Marked events: GDPR takes effect · Pandemic

When do breaches happen?

Month by month and year by year
2024 / 2025 / 2026 YTD
Monthly total · year-over-year overlay same calendar months · 2024 / 2025 / 2026 YTD

Year-over-year overlay

Each year’s months on one axis, so you can see whether this year is running above, below, or level with earlier years.

Who notifies?

Sectors and sub-sectors
Since May 2018
Sector mix · sub-sector share –
    12-month snapshot · by sub-sector last 12 mo · scroll →

    What goes wrong?

    Incident types
    Since May 2018

    Top 10 hændelsestyper

    Notified breaches per incident type, split by sector. A breach can involve several types, so the bars together add up to more than the number of breaches.
    Public Private Unknown sector

    Which industries?

    The industries behind the notified breaches
    Since May 2018

    Data source and method

    Where the figures come from, and how they are checked

    Data source

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    The MEO FrameworkMistakes, Errors, and Omissions

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    Reproducible

    Automated checks before every update