Individuals affected

The number of individuals world-wide whose personal information was compromised, as estimated by notifying entities, 1 July to 31 December 2025.

Breaches affecting 100 or fewer people61.3%basis: period
Large-scale breaches3basis: period

Individuals affected world-wide, by range

basis: period (published report figure)

Source: the OAIC workbook 1 July to 31 December 2025 (as at 29 June 2026), data.gov.au dataset 5781dc17-2ad0-4dd1-bced-01c544943ce3.

Where did this come from?

Range labels are the workbook labels, kept verbatim. Counts are published workbook figures.

Large-scale data breaches affecting Australians

basis: period (published report figure)

Source: the OAIC workbook 1 July to 31 December 2025 (as at 29 June 2026), data.gov.au dataset 5781dc17-2ad0-4dd1-bced-01c544943ce3.

Where did this come from?

Range labels are the workbook labels, kept verbatim. Counts are published workbook figures.

Range labels are the workbook labels kept verbatim. Large-scale thresholds moved over the series (over 5,000 Australians in 2022-2023 reports, over 100,000 in 2024); the threshold travels with each figure on the history page.