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I don't claim to be an expert, but this random site claims that British companies have suffers 10k data breaches [0]. According to this, there have only been 91

• jacquesm 8y ago
  > I don't see how someone can come to the conclusion that this is actually helping data be more secure. The fines are not what has made things getting more secure, the work done to avoid the fines is. Before the GDPR pretty much every company I looked at had absolutely terrible security, since the GDPR is in effect most companies at least stopped seeing security as a cost to be avoided, with an associated increase in awareness at the rest of the company and better processes and controls to ensure that data does not leave the servers when it isn't intended that way. It's 91 fines so far, and a whole pile of warnings and interventions, give it a few years and the cumulative effect will be substantial. Oh, and that 10K number is only the breaches that the companies are aware of and that have been reported, the real number is likely to be much higher. And without the GDPR it would be much higher still.