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Legal among top 5 sectors with most reported data breaches

A new report has shown the top five industry sectors that reported the most data breaches throughout the last quarter, with legal making the cut.

August 02, 2018 • By Emma Musgrave
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The Australian Government's Notifiable Data Breaches Quarterly Statistics Report, covering the period from 1 April–20 June 2018, has revealed the largest source of reported data breaches was the private health service provider sector (health sector) (20 per cent).

 
 

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The second largest source was the finance sector (15 per cent), followed by the legal, accounting and management services sector (8 per cent), the private education sector (8 per cent), and the business and professional associations sector (6 per cent).

According to the report, the legal, accounting and management and business and professional associations notified the majority of breaches resulting from malicious or criminal attacks.

Four of the top five sectors, including legal, notified at least one breach resulting from a system fault.

The legal, accounting and management services sector also identified data breaches which resulted from human error, with at least five breaches arising from someone sending personal information to the wrong recipient, and at least one caused by either a loss of paperwork or date storage device.

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Emma Musgrave

Emma Musgrave

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Emma Musgrave (née Ryan) is the managing editor, professional services at Momentum Media.

Emma has worked for Momentum Media since 2015, including five years spent as the editor of the company's legal brand - Lawyers Weekly. Throughout her time at Momentum, she has been responsible for breaking some of the biggest stories in corporate Australia. In addition, she has produced exclusive multimedia and event content related to the company's respective brands and audiences. 

Prior to joining Momentum Media, Emma worked in breakfast radio, delivering news to the Central West region of NSW, before taking on a radio journalist role at Southern Cross Austereo, based in Townsville, North Queensland.

She holds a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) degree from Charles Sturt University. 

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