GDPRRegulation (EU) 2016/679

Definition: personal data breach: personal data breach

GDPR Art. 4 (personal data breach)

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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

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Article 4

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