Tag: data breaches

69% of Australian Data Breaches Are Cyber Attacks in 2024

Vikas Thakur / Oct 12, 2026 / 8 min read

69% of the data breaches reported to Australia's privacy regulator in 2024 were malicious or criminal cyber attacks, not accidents. Phishing and ransomware caused most of the damage, according to the OAIC's latest Notifiable Data Breaches report. Health providers and government agencies were hit hardest.

225 Health Breaches in 2025: The Website Causes

Vikas Thakur / Aug 30, 2026 / 10 min read

Health service providers reported 225 data breach notifications in 2025, more than any other sector, according to the OAIC. Here is where a clinic or dental practice website creates that exposure and what to fix in the build.