Australia has the most information-security breaches in the Asia-Pacific region, according to new research that has applied a standard metric as a way to compare the relative frequency and severity of security breaches. The report counted 974 breach incidents during the first half of the year, accounting for over 550 million records. Malicious outsiders were blamed for the most breaches 69 percent of the total well ahead of losses to accidental loss (18 percent), malicious insiders (8.5 percent), hacktivists (3 percent), and nation-state actors (1.4 percent)”]