Australian Notifiable Data Breach Report Form

When your organisation experiences a data breach that's likely to result in serious harm to affected individuals, the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme requires you to notify the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and those individuals as soon as practicable. This Australian Notifiable Data Breach Report Form streamlines your compliance process, helping you capture all the essential information the OAIC requires in a clear, structured format.

Designed for Australian businesses, government agencies, healthcare providers, legal firms and any organisation bound by the Privacy Act 1988, this template guides you through every step of the breach notification process—from initial incident details and affected individual counts through to risk assessment and remediation plans. By using Paperform, you can embed this form on your internal portal or share it with your legal, IT and compliance teams to log breaches quickly and accurately, ensuring you meet your regulatory obligations without scrambling through email chains or spreadsheets.

How Paperform and Stepper can help you stay compliant

Beyond capturing breach details, Paperform integrates seamlessly with your existing workflows. Once a breach report is submitted, you can use Stepper (stepper.io) to automatically route notifications to your Data Protection Officer, legal counsel and IT security team, create tasks in your project management tool, log the incident in your compliance register and even trigger follow-up workflows for affected individual notifications and OAIC correspondence. This automation ensures nothing falls through the cracks during a high-pressure incident response, and gives you a clear audit trail for regulators and stakeholders.

Whether you're a privacy officer managing compliance, a legal advisor coordinating breach response, or an IT manager triaging security incidents, this template and the Paperform platform give you the control, clarity and confidence you need to handle notifiable data breaches professionally and efficiently.