A personal data breach may, if not addressed in an appropriate and timely manner, result in physical, material or non-material damage to natural persons such as loss of control over their personal data or limitation of their rights, discrimination, identity theft or fraud, financial loss, unauthorised reversal of pseudonymisation, damage to reputation, loss of confidentiality of personal data protected by professional secrecy or any other significant economic or social disadvantage to the natural person concerned.
Mura dtéitear i ngleic le sárú i ndáil le sonraí pearsanta ar bhealach iomchuí tráthúil, d'fhéadfadh gurb é an toradh a bheadh air damáiste fisiciúil, ábhartha nó neamhabhartha do dhaoine nádúrtha amhail smacht ar a gcuid sonraí pearsanta a chailleadh, nó teorannú ar a gcearta, idirdhealú, goid aitheantais nó calaois aitheantais, caillteanas airgeadais, aisiompú neamhúdaraithe chur i bhfeidhm ainm bréige, damáiste don chlú, caillteanas rúndacht na sonraí pearsanta sin atá faoi chosaint de réir rúndacht ghairmiúil, nó aon mhíbhuntáiste eacnamaíoch nó sóisialta eile don duine nádúrtha lena mbaineann.