The risks of improperly managing a privacy breach are high, but unfortunately not uncommon. A data breach puts immense pressure on a company to complete a lengthy and at times ambiguous to-do list of GDPR requirements which often takes up too much of the precious 72h time window allowed for reporting.

First thing that comes to mind, when thinking about causes of data breaches, is a malicious attack by a hacker. Since privacy incidents might be considered a crime, it is natural to automatically associate them with a criminal.

Widely-processed personal data in the contemporary world requires new assessments of the rules to accurately protect rights and freedoms of the individuals. The General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), implemented in May 2018, led to a greater harmonisation of privacy rules in European Union.

The number 1 cause for data breach incidents in 2019 was phishing and social engineering campaigns. These attacks are delivered via email 97% of the time and are designed to convince their recipients to give away their security credentials.

For years fictional smart homes have been portrayed in books and movies. Nowadays, fiction becomes true. Everyone can move to an apartment where every device is tailored to them. Growing technology facilitates people’s life, however, it also poses many risks and raises a lot of legal challenges.