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Generation Life reports cyber attack

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2026
... Generation Life at the conclusion of that process," GDG said. APRA, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and National Office of Cyber Security (NOCS) have been notified of the incident. ...

Criminal attacks, human error drive data breaches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
The number of data breaches reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) rose 25% in 2024; 54 or 9% of which occurred at financial services organisations. New statistics from the OAIC show there was a total of 1113 notifications ...

Malicious attacks most common in finance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... breaches last year, beat out only by the health sector, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). The Notifiable Data Breaches Report found the finance sector accounted for 15% of all reported data breached in the period ...

AustralianSuper breached member's privacy: Regulator

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... a federal regulator found the fund interfered with their privacy. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) on December 16 delivered a judgement on a complaint that an AustralianSuper member filed over three and a half years ago. The ...

AustralianSuper members exposed to security breach

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2019
... has reported this account activity to the Privacy Commissioner at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)." The super fund declined to further comment on how the breach was detected and if a specific member group was affected. AustralianSuper ...

Train staff on privacy risks: OAIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... of data breaches in the third quarter of 2018. In its report of notifiable data breaches between July and September, the OAIC noted the finance sector was the second worst offender for data breaches with 35 notifications. Of the sector's breaches, 48% ...

Financial services data breaches recorded

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... notifiable data breaches reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner in the first quarter of 2018. The OAIC Quarterly Statistics report outlined the top five industry sectors that reported breaches in the quarter. Finance (including ...

Small advice firms face big data breach penalties

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... information and that can result in serious harm will be reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), an independent statutory body that monitors privacy and freedom of information. "Serious harm to an individual may include ...
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