{"id":414788,"date":"2026-01-15T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414788\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:22:11","slug":"gallagher-details-widening-cyber-breach-and-privacy-duties-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414788\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallagher details widening cyber breach and privacy duties in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OAIC also reported an increase in breaches linked to human error, which made up 37% of all notifications (193 incidents), up from 29% in the previous reporting period. The regulator concluded that \u201cthe human factor continues to pose a notable threat to the strength of an organisation\u2019s personal information security, regardless of how secure its systems are.\u201d IBM\u2019s 2024 benchmarking, cited in the commentary, placed the average cost of a data breach to a business at US$4.26 million. In this context, cyber insurance is presented as one element of a broader risk approach that includes detection capabilities, incident response planning, staff training, and alignment of coverage terms with evolving Australian privacy and cyber regulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The OAIC also reported an increase in breaches linked to human error, which made up 37% of all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,210219,14279,44,43675],"class_list":["post-414788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cyber-insurance","tag-data-breach","tag-news","tag-privacy-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}