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Australian Medical Privacy Breach September 2020: Anglicare Sydney being held to ransom over sensitive data stolen from computer system, 17GB data transmitted to ‘remote location’ after attack.
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Australian Ransomware Medical Attack: August 03 2020: Regis Healthcare loses data in Maze ransomware infection, prompts ACSC warning on broader campaign targeting aged care.
Read MorePrivate sector health service providers will be required to notify affected individuals and the Australian Information Commissioner of data breaches that are likely to cause serious harm under the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB)...
Read MoreAccountancy firm Deloitte says it will not be releasing any more details about the data breach that it suffered in March this year. Source: No more data breach details will be released: Deloitte
Read MoreFollowing latest high-profile Government data breach, local partners weigh in on how IT contractors can avoid being caught up in the headlines. Source: Data governance in focus following Australia’s second-largest...
Read MoreIf your business holds reasonably well defined data sets, you can and should be considering how toxic a leak might be. Here’s why. Source: Peter Moon: When could a data breach be toxic? | afr.com
Read MoreThe Australian Signals Directorate should be applauded for sharing publicly the details of a serious data breach at an Australian defence contractor at a conference for cyber security professionals in Sydney this week. Source:...
Read MoreThe European Union has always favoured the protection of personal privacy over the rights of governments and law enforcement to snoop on our data. Their regulations for the protection of Personal Identifiable Information (PII)...
Read MoreAmendments to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) were passed in mid-February which introduce an obligation for Australian organisations covered by the Act to notify affected individuals and the Office of the Australian Information...
Read MoreThe company that owns Australia’s largest credit history checking business has been hacked in the United States, potentially exposing half of the entire US population to identity crime. Stephen Smiley reports. Source:...
Read MoreAustralia’s Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Cyber Security has taken a positive stance on the 2016 Census debacle that was labelled a ‘confluence of failure’, calling it the wake-up call the nation...
Read MoreMelbourne’s train operator Metro Trains has been fined $1.2 million over the IT outage that shut down the commuter network during rush hour in mid-July. Source: Metro Trains fined $1.2m over IT fail that downed network...
Read MoreAustralia’s mandatory data breach notification law, which goes into effect next February, brings a host of new requirements. ordon Hughes, an attorney and data protection expert, discusses what organizations need to be...
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