Infosecurity Magazine reports:
The number of organizations notifying their GDPR regulator of a data breach surged by 22% to a daily average of 443 in 2025, according to DLA Piper.
The global law firm has been analyzing GDPR regulatory activity every year since the data protection regulation came into being in 2018.
The past 12 months bucked a long-term trend that has seen average daily notifications plateauing and it’s the first time since 2018 that the figure has exceeded 400, DLA Piper noted.
Germany, the Netherlands and Poland retained their leading positions for the highest number of data breaches notified in 2025.
Geopolitical unrest and AI-enabled threats may be behind the increase in breaches of personally identifiable information (PII), which is regulated by the GDPR, the law firm suggested.
Read more at Infosecurity Magazine.
