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national technology reporter Danny Tran

Data breaches affecting millions of Australians are on the rise, Information Commissioner says

The new figures reveal there have been three large-scale breaches the public does not know about. (AAP: Dan Peled)

Millions of Australians' personal details have been compromised by unpublicised data breaches – separate from the Optus and Medibank hacks – according to figures released by the national information watchdog on Wednesday.

The Australian Information Commissioner revealed there were three large-scale data breaches in the second half of last year, which affected between 1 million and 10 million Australians.

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