Australia’s privacy commissioner has defended a failure to penalise any organisation for any of the 1,748 data breaches reported over the past two years as a decision based on “regulatory strategy”.
In an exchange with Greens senator David Shoebridge during senate estimates on Monday night, Australia’s information and privacy commissioner, Angelene Falk, revealed that the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) had received 1,748 reports of notifiable data breaches over the past two financial years.
She said a third of them were caused by human error as well as a “large proportion” by hackers.
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