Human error accounts for 34% of Notifiable Data Breaches – 3 key take outs from the latest OAIC report
By Cameron Abbott and Karla Hodgson
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has released its Q2 statistics on notifications received under the Notifiable Data Breach (NDB) scheme. The 245 breach notifications in Q2 are on par with each other quarter since the scheme was introduced in July 2018 and while the majority of NDBs (62%) are attributed to malicious or criminal attacks, we noted with interest that a staggering 34% are due to human error – that is, mostly avoidable errors made by staff. A consistent theme of our blogs is reinforcing the message that employees are the front line of defence for organisations.
There are 3 key statistics we took away from these human error NDBs.
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