Claim when confidential information is exposed

If your confidential information is exposed, you could be entitled to pursue a GDPR privacy compensation claim, and we may be able to represent you for a legal case on a No Win, No Fee basis.

Your Lawyers, as Leading Privacy Claims Experts, will always make sure to fight for your right to secure the maximum compensation possible. You can start the process toward compensation by contacting us for a free claims assessment on a no-obligation basis here now.

When you can claim if confidential information is exposed

You could be eligible to claim data breach compensation if confidential information is exposed or misused through no fault of your own. If the misuse or exposure occurred due to some kind of negligence or oversight, it may be that the organisation responsible is in breach of the GDPR. If they are found to have been in breach of the GDPR, that is when you could be eligible to use the GDPR to claim compensation.

The GDPR could entitle anyone who has lost control of their personal information due to misuse or exposure to recover damages for any distress that has been caused by the loss of control. If any incidental losses or expenses have also been incurred, these can be considered, but they are not essential to pursue a claim. The main thing that most people claim for is the distress element alone.

The impact on the victim can be substantial when confidential information is exposed, given that this is precisely the kind of data that we want to keep secure and restricted. Because the distress in such claims can be so substantial, the pay-outs and values that are applied to these kinds of privacy compensation cases can be higher, and we will touch on this more below.

If we believe that you have suffered as a result of some form of negligence and a breach of the GDPR, we may be able to represent you for a legal case on a No Win, No Fee basis. The best place to start is to contact our team for a free legal claims assessment which we can complete on a no-obligation basis.

Significant data breach compensation pay-outs

When confidential information is exposed, as we said above, the distress caused can be significant. Generally speaking, the more a person suffers, the more their data breach compensation pay-out could be worth. This means that, when we are talking about data such as medical records or sensitive domestic information, the distress can be greater which means that the damages awards can be higher.

Our average compensation settlement as of 2022 is at just over £6,000 in damages alone per claimant. However, when it comes to particularly confidential information, pay-outs can exceed this substantially and some can be in the tens of thousands of pounds mark.

You can read more about data breach compensation pay-outs and amounts on our advice page here.

Keeping an eye on NHS data breach statistics

It is vital that NHS data breach statistics are closely monitored because of the fact that they process some of the most confidential information that there can be about us. As things stand at the moment, the NHS is under considerable pressure as a result of under-resourcing, and it has not helped that we have had the coronavirus pandemic recently as well.

It is vital that NHS data breach statistics are an important thing to continue to consider to protect people’s information in this particularly sensitive environment.

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