POST/api/v1/privacy/incidents

Declare a new personal-data breach (starts the 72h Art. 33 clock)

Records a new GDPR Art. 33 incident. discovered_at MUST be provided; that is when the 72-hour authority-notification clock starts. status defaults to draft; pass status=open when the operator commits to the SLA.

Authentication

Send Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY on every request. Generate API keys at /dashboard/api-keys.

Request body required

Example

{
  "orgId": "string",
  "title": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "severity": "serious",
  "breach_kind": "confidentiality",
  "discovered_at": "2026-05-29T20:54:19.749Z",
  "affected_users": 0,
  "root_cause": "string",
  "corrective_actions": [
    "string"
  ],
  "status": "draft"
}
Schema
{
  "application/json": {
    "schema": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
        "orgId",
        "title",
        "severity",
        "discovered_at"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "orgId": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "title": {
          "type": "string",
          "maxLength": 500
        },
        "description": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "severity": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "serious",
            "non-serious"
          ]
        },
        "breach_kind": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "confidentiality",
            "integrity",
            "availability",
            "combined"
          ]
        },
        "discovered_at": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "date-time"
        },
        "affected_users": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 0
        },
        "root_cause": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "corrective_actions": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "status": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "draft",
            "open",
            "notified",
            "resolved"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Response

All status codes

201Incident created

Code samples

cURL

curl -X POST \
  https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/privacy/incidents \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVALGUARD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "orgId": "string", "title": "string", "description": "string", "severity": "serious", "breach_kind": "confidentiality", "discovered_at": "2026-05-29T20:54:19.749Z", "affected_users": 0, "root_cause": "string", "corrective_actions": [ "string" ], "status": "draft" }'

TypeScript

import { EvalGuard } from "@evalguard/sdk";

const client = new EvalGuard({ apiKey: process.env.EVALGUARD_API_KEY });

const response = await client.request({
  method: "POST",
  path: "/api/v1/privacy/incidents",
  body: {
    "orgId": "string",
    "title": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "severity": "serious",
    "breach_kind": "confidentiality",
    "discovered_at": "2026-05-29T20:54:19.749Z",
    "affected_users": 0,
    "root_cause": "string",
    "corrective_actions": [
      "string"
    ],
    "status": "draft"
  },
});
console.log(response);

Python

from evalguard import EvalGuard
import os

client = EvalGuard(api_key=os.environ["EVALGUARD_API_KEY"])

response = client.request(
    method="POST",
    path="/api/v1/privacy/incidents",
    body={
    "orgId": "string",
    "title": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "severity": "serious",
    "breach_kind": "confidentiality",
    "discovered_at": "2026-05-29T20:54:19.749Z",
    "affected_users": 0,
    "root_cause": "string",
    "corrective_actions": [
        "string"
    ],
    "status": "draft"
},
)
print(response)

Go

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"os"

	"github.com/evalguard/evalguard-go"
)

func main() {
	client := evalguard.NewClient(os.Getenv("EVALGUARD_API_KEY"))
	resp, err := client.Request(context.Background(), "POST", "/api/v1/privacy/incidents", map[string]any{"orgId": "string", "title": "string", "description": "string", "severity": "serious", "breach_kind": "confidentiality", "discovered_at": "2026-05-29T20:54:19.749Z", "affected_users": 0, "root_cause": "string", "corrective_actions": []any{"string"}, "status": "draft"})
	if err != nil { panic(err) }
	fmt.Println(resp)
}

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