Australia: Cybercrime: Managing Data Breaches In Australia
15 July 2020
Davies Collison Cave
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What is a data breach?
A data breach is generally defined as an incident involving "unauthorised access to sensitive, protected or confidential data resulting in the compromise of either confidentiality, integrity or availability of an information asset".1 Data breaches pose serious risks to businesses and the individuals to whom the information relates.
One specific type of data breach is a "business email compromise" (BEC), where a cybercriminal impersonates a business contact to trick employees or suppliers of a business to transfer money or to provide sensitive information. Often BEC scammers use domain names or emails almost identical to those of the contact they are impersonating, and because they don't use malicious attachments, their emails often get past anti-virus software. Most BEC scams take one of these forms:2
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