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Malicious, criminal attacks main causes of Australian data breaches in first half of 2021

By Laurel Henning ( August 23, 2021, 05:31 GMT | Insight) -- Australian data-breach reports to the country’s privacy watchdog decreased 16 percent in the period Jan. 1 through June 30, 2021, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has reported. In a new report published today, the OAIC said that malicious or criminal attacks were the main cause of the 466 notifications it received under the Notifiable Data Breaches program.Malicious or criminal cyber attacks were the main cause of the 466 data-breach notifications received by Australia’s privacy watchdog in the period Jan. 1 through June 30, 2021, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, or OAIC, has reported....

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