According to an "exchange" between Greens Senator David Shoebridge and Australia's information and privacy commissioner Angelene Falk during Senate estimates yesterday, it was revealed (Crikey link, could be paywalled) that "the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) had received 1,748 reports of notifiable data breaches over the past two financial years". Despite all those breaches, there hasn't been a single fine handed out by the OAIC for a data breach, which apparently, is a "regulatory strategy" to encourage "the resolution of investigations by means other than penalties". Falk also mentioned that investigations into the Optus, Medibank, Latitude and Australian Clinical Labs data breaches will be completed "shortly".
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