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Commission receives nearly 1,000 reports of data breaches
In the year since the Notifiable Data Breach went into effect, 964 data breaches were reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, The Mandarin reports. That is a 712% increase in data breaches when compared to the previous reporting system used in 2017. Nearly 60% of breaches were due to malicious or criminal attacks, 35% were caused by human error, and the remaining reports were based on malfunctions. Most of the breaches occurred in the health care sector in which 55% of the reports were due to human error. According to NDB rules, the OAIC is not permitted to disclose which entities reported data breaches.