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ARTICLE · 02 AUGUST 2018

The second Quarterly Data Breach Report is in and the numbers are up!

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On 31st of July 2018 the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) released the second Notifiable Data Breaches Quarterly Statistics Report, recording 242 breach notifications. The first report, issued in April, had been a partial quarter as the new laws only came into place on 22 February 2018, and recoded 65 notifications.

However, notwithstanding that the total volume indicated an increase, there has in fact been a month on month increase in the number of breaches with June reaching 90 notified breaches as opposed to 55 in the first full month of the Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme.

For those who are interested in knowing how their industry rates in the number of breach reporting industries, the top five industry sectors are identified as being:

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