The Information Commissioner's Office is the authoritative source of information on GDPR and data compliance generally. This infographic summarises the data security incidents relating to solicitors and barristers reported to the ICO in 2015/16, well before GDPR. While it is the big online data breaches that make the news, the infographic shows that in the case of law firms it was mislaid (or missent) printed material that was often the cause of the breach.
Infographic summarising the data security incidents relating to solicitors and barristers >>