On the 31st July 2018 the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) issued its second quarterly statistics report on Notifiable Data Breaches. This report is the first that covers figures for an entire quarter there is an understandable increase in the number of breaches reported.

If this trend continues over time it will be interesting to investigate whether rising breach numbers are a result of an increase in the number of actual data breaches, or a reflection of the evolving maturity of the market regarding the new obligations – or both.