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Latest Data Breach 2024 In Australia. 483 breaches were notified, up 19% from 407 breaches in january to june 2023. Major companies affected include medisecure, ticketmaster, shell, telstra, and optus, leaving many individuals at risk of identity theft.

In the first half of 2024, 527 data breaches were reported to the regulator, marking the highest number since the latter half of 2020 and a nine per cent increase over the previous six months. A series of data thefts from cloud data giant snowflake quickly snowballed into one of the biggest breaches of the year, thanks to the vast amounts of data stolen from its corporate customers.