Public Data Breach Register for the Municipality of Utrecht
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Description
Municipal data breach records from Utrecht, Netherlands, containing details of closed incidents. The dataset includes the date, description, consequences, corrective measures, and notification status for each breach. It is published by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a CC0 1.0 license.
Use Cases
Analyzing trends in data breach types and frequencies based on the date and description fields.
Evaluating the effectiveness of corrective measures taken by the municipality.
Studying compliance protocols by tracking whether the Dutch Data Protection Authority and data subjects were informed.
Modeling risk factors associated with different breach descriptions and their potential consequences.
Strengths
Records are for closed incidents only, providing a consistent status for analysis.
Includes multiple structured fields such as corrective measures and notification status.
Published under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.
Limitations
Row count and last update date are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Data may reflect temporal and geographic bias inherent to a single municipality.
Provenance
Source
Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)
Collection Method
Administrative register of reported and investigated data breaches within the municipality of Utrecht.