data breach statistics australia

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s latest Notifiable Data Breaches Report revealed a rapid rise nationwide in notifiable data breaches in the first six months of 2024 — a 9% increase when compared with the final six months of 2023 and the highest number of notifications since 2020. The report, released in September, showed that recent data breaches, including the beach of medical prescription service MediSecure affecting 12.9 million Australians, have prompted a strong…