Practical Law: Legal update, OAIC's Notifiable Data Breaches Report for January to June 2021 warns of increasing ransomware threat in Australia
On 23 August 2021, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) released the Notifiable Data Breaches Report for the period January to June 2021 (Report). The Report warns of the increasing prevalence of cybersecurity incidents as a cause of data breaches in Australia, especially in relation to ransomware. Legal update, OAIC's Notifiable Data Breaches Report for January to June 2021 warns of increasing ransomware threat in Australia, considers the findings of the Report in relation to cybersecurity incidents and guidance from the OAIC for APP entities when assessing whether there are reasonable grounds to believe there has been an eligible data breach.
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