A whopping 88% of federal government data breaches are caused by human error: Report Cyber Security Shannon Jenkins 1 February 2021 Of the 33 reports of data breaches made by government agencies to OAIC, human error accounted for 29 notifications.
Phishing emails and human error: Almost 1,000 data breaches reported in 12 months Fraud Stephen Easton 23 May 2019 There were 964 data breaches reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner in the first year of mandatory reporting.
Nearly 40% of reported data breaches were due to human error, including emails being sent to the wrong person Technology Dominic Powell 1 August 2018 According to the latest Notifiable Data Breach report, there were 305 reported data breaches in Australia between April 1 to June 30, 2018.
