Tag: Data breach

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

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.

One Year After GDPR: Significant rise on Data Breach reporting…

It’s been one year since the European Union (EU) enforced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), legislation designed to protect the personal data of EU citizens and lay specific rules and guidelines on how their data is collected, stored, processed and deleted by various entities. During this year, a number of European DPAs have confirmed that the new regulation has led to a significant rise in reported data breaches, clearly demonstrating the impact GDPR has had on raising awareness with the general public as well as organizations regarding their rights and obligations under EU data protection law.