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Incident: Cyber attack on Family Planning NSW client database | SMH
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Report: OAIC Quarterly Data Breach Statistics Report: January 2018 – March 2018
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Researchers from the University of Melbourne have been able to easily re-identify patients from confidential data released by the federal Health department, without using decryption methods. Privacy commissioner investigating....
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