The Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme began over a year ago. The OAIC received 262 breach notifications in the last quarter of 2019. The volume of breaches an average of 72 breaches per month was down from 242 in the first full quarter of reporting. 61 percent of breaches in the latest quarter were attributed to malicious or criminal attacks up from 59 percent in earlier quarters. One breach involved 10 million or more records potentially involving half or more of Australias entire population and 8 breaches that involved between 10,000 and 500,000 records each.”]