Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) Scheme: Australian Privacy Incident Reports

Australian data breach notifications collected by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner under the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme. The dataset likely contains records of incidents where personal information was involved and serious harm was likely. It was last updated on 2026-06-29.

Use Cases

• Analyze data breach trends over time based on notification dates likely present in the data.
• Study the types of organizations reporting breaches based on likely sector or entity-type columns.
• Assess the regulatory impact of the NDB scheme based on the volume and nature of reported incidents.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the official regulatory body, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
• The dataset is published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Last updated date is explicitly provided as 2026-06-29.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update date is in the future (2026).

Provenance

Source

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

Collection Method

Notifications submitted by organizations under the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-29 06:24:03.417237

Geography

Australia