Tag: OAIC

More Than 10M Australians Affected by a Single Data Breach,…

Posted on 19 June 2019 by Thales

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) found that a single data breach affected more than 10 million Australians. In its latest Notifiable Data Breaches Quarterly Statistics Report, the OAIC reveals that it received 215 notifications of data breaches under the Notifiable Data Breach Scheme between 1 January and 31 March 2019. Nearly all of those security incidents (189) affected between one and 1,000 Australians.

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Phishing the Most Common Attack on Australian Organizations in Q3…

Posted on 27 November 2018 by Thales

A new report from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) reveals that phishing was the most criminal attack suffered by Australian organizations in Q3 2018.

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OAIC Received 242 Data Breach Notifications in Q2 2018

Posted on 12 September 2018 by Thales

Australia’s acting data protection agency tracked 242 data breach notifications, bringing the year’s total thus far to 305. A majority (59 percent) of those incidents arose from a malicious or criminal attack. Even so, human error was responsible for 36 percent of those breaches.

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