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Companies handling sensitive health, financial and personal data have reported an explosion of privacy breaches since Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal. 9News

Australian Information Commissioner Angelene Falk on Monday said 1132 companies reported local breaches in the year to March 31 - compared to just 159 voluntary notifications in the previous 12 months.

It's been a little over a year since new commonwealth laws forced medium to large organisations to reveal when personal data was improperly accessed.Some 16.5 million people were affected in the 1132 breaches. In one breach alone in 2019, data on more than 10 million people was exposed. "Overall, the leading cause of data breaches was compromised credentials with 159 linked to phishing - people being tricked or lured into providing their username and password," Ms Falk told a business breakfast in Sydney.

About 350 breaches were down to human error, such as an employee losing a hard drive or emailing someone's file to a third-party.Related Articles

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