# ICO: report a personal data breach

- Type: Tools
- Source: ICO
- Date: 2026-11-11
- Original: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/report-a-breach/
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/628501
- Topics: Data Breaches, Notification Obligation, Personal Data, Controllers, Supervision, Supervisory Authorities

## Summary

The UK regulator’s breach reporting service, with a self-assessment that tells whether a breach must be reported and the online form for doing so within 72 hours. For breaches under UK GDPR.

## Full text

The UK regulator’s breach reporting service, with a self-assessment that tells whether a breach must be reported and the online form for doing so within 72 hours. For breaches under UK GDPR.

When to use it: A breach concerns processing subject to UK GDPR.
Provisions: GDPR Art. 33.
Published by ICO (supervisory authority), for United Kingdom (UK GDPR).
For: controllers, DPOs and privacy officers.
Free; available in English.

De meldvoorziening voor datalekken van de Britse toezichthouder, met een zelftoets die zegt of een lek gemeld moet worden en het online formulier om dat binnen 72 uur te doen. Voor lekken onder de UK GDPR.

Wanneer gebruiken: Een datalek valt onder de UK GDPR.

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