Australian data breach report shines spotlight on cyber attacks
Malicious or criminal attacks accounted for the majority of data breaches reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner in the three months to 30 June.
Malicious or criminal attacks accounted for the majority of data breaches reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner in the three months to 30 June.
Australia has reached an important milestone by enacting the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act, or, as it is better known, mandatory breach notification.
Health service providers accounted for almost a quarter of the breaches reported in the first six weeks of operation of the government’s Notifiable Data Breach (NDB).
Australia’s mandatory data breach notification regime takes effect today.
Uber has confirmed that in October 2016 hackers gained access to the licence numbers of 600,000 of its US drivers and the personal information of 57 million Uber users from around the world.