Data Loss Reports to ICO Increase Once Again

The number of incidents reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the second quarter of 2020 has increased by over a thousand in comparison to Q1.

In the previous report for Q1, there were 1446 reported incidents, including 412 cited as cybersecurity events. However, for Q2, there were 2594 reported incidents, which included 737 cybersecurity events, including 258 for phishing, 152 for ransomware and 190 for unauthorized access.

Among the non-cybersecurity incidents, there were 402 instances of data being emailed to the wrong person, 266 of data posted or faxed to the incorrect recipient and 141 of loss or theft of paperwork or data left in insecure locations.

With the “non cyber-incidents” still fairly prominent, Infosecurity asked speaker and author Raef Meeuwisse if he saw this ever reducing. “Whenever you get down to trusting human actions, you will always get a certain amount of human error,” he said. “Most enterprises now have various process and technology safeguards in place to reduce the possibility of human error – but there is only one way to totally get rid of human error – and that is to get rid of all the humans.

“The safeguards most enterprises have mean that although data emailed to incorrect recipient was high in terms of numbers of incidents, in most of the cases, it should not have been any significant number of records that were exposed.”

Meanwhile, Rick Goud, CEO and founder of Zivver, predicted that this type of “non cyb ..

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