Blocked by the firewall, the agent found another way in. Nobody told it to. The vendor took 84 days and a contact form to say so.
Two in five notifiable breaches involve nobody attacking anything, and sit outside everything this database has to say.
Eight per cent, in a scheme with a stable definition and eight years of continuity, is the most credible year-on-year change in this database.
A universal register with cause classification is achievable — one country has run it for eight years.
Health leading a universal register is a stronger finding than health leading a sector-specific one.
Reading this database suggests a breach means millions of records. The national average is five thousand times smaller than the largest file here.