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| 23.12.2024 | New Guide Empowers Australian Tech Workers to Expose Corporate Wrongdoings | The Human Rights Law Centre has released a new guide that empowers Australian tech employees to speak out against harmful company practices or products.
The guide, Technology-Related Whistleblowing, provides a summary of legally protected a... |
| 17.12.2024 | Meta's Settlement: A Cautionary Tale for Privacy in the Digital Age | In a world where data is the new oil, the recent settlement between Meta Platforms and Australia’s privacy watchdog serves as a stark reminder of the fragility of personal information. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has agreed to pay... |
| 17.12.2024 | Facebook-parent Meta settles with Australia's privacy watchdog over Cambridge Analytica lawsuit | :Meta Platforms has agreed to a A$50 million settlement ($31.85 million), Australia's privacy watchdog said on Tuesday, closing long-drawn, expensive legal proceedings for the Facebook parent over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The Office... |
| 04.12.2024 | Don't let your company make headlines for all the wrong reasons | Australian banks, superannuation funds, and insurance companies take note: the new Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) rules - stricter cyber security risk management - mean you, your team, and your company will be under serio... |
| 17.10.2024 | Why you need layered email security to protect against advanced threats | Email remains one of the most crucial communication tools for organisations worldwide, but it is also a prime target for cyberattacks. According to Barracuda's Email Threats and Trends report, advanced email threats like business email comp... |
| 30.09.2024 | Enhancing data centre security with mobile access control | In today's data-driven world, where information is the new gold standard, data centre security has become a top priority for every IT department. Data privacy and ethical management are no longer simply best practices—they're now legal mand... |
| 24.09.2024 | 2024 Exposed: The Alarming State of Australian Data Breaches | The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s latest Notifiable Data Breaches Report revealed a rapid rise nationwide in notifiable data breaches in the first six months of 2024 — a 9% increase when compared with the final six mon... |
| 20.09.2024 | Vectra AI reveals critical flaw in Google Cloud Document AI | Vectra AI has identified a significant vulnerability in Google Cloud's Document AI service that could expose users to data exfiltration risks. Kat Traxler, Principal Security Researcher at Vectra AI, has flagged the issue, centred on "... |
| 28.08.2024 | The Rise of Digital Identity: Australia’s Trust Exchange System | In a world where data breaches are as common as morning coffee, Australia is stepping up to the plate. The country is launching a new digital verification system called the Trust Exchange, or TEx. This initiative aims to revolutionize how A... |
| 22.08.2024 | Australian Digital ID: TEx System Poised to Boost Security By Sharing Less Data With Businesses | For IT and cybersecurity teams, collecting and storing PII can be a significant burden. When dealing with millions of customer records, it becomes both a costly and risky endeavor to manage and protect data from hackers, as well as to handl... |
| 02.08.2024 | Optus and Medibank Data Breach Cases Allege Cyber Security Failures | 2022 was a big year for cyber security breaches in Australia.
Both telecommunications provider Optus and private health insurer Medibank suffered large-scale data breaches affecting tens of millions of Australians, leading to heightened reg... |
| 24.05.2024 | CISOs in Australia Urged to Take a Closer Look at Data Breach Risks | Clayton Utz cyber partner Brenton Steenkamp has seen his fair share of cyber attacks. Returning to Australia in October after a seven-year stint in Amsterdam, he has brought home tales of dealing with multiple large ransomware attacks in Eu... |
| 21.05.2024 | MediSecure data breach: Why hackers target health data | Source: Adobe Stock. article-article-body
The latest large-scale ransomware attack on a health technology provider, electronic prescription company MediSecure, was revealed last week.
MediSecure announced it had suffered a “cybersecurity in... |
| 23.01.2024 | Australian Organisations Struggling to Resolve Tensions Between Personalisation, Privacy | Organisations in Australia face a significant challenge with data. On the one hand, there is a demand for personalised services. Consumers are willing to share their data if it means better personalisation.
On the other hand, there is a rea... |
| 11.01.2024 | Canberra steps into the AI arena without a policy framework | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
A partnership with Microsoft will trial the use of AI within the Australian Public Service, even while safety policies are still being developed.
The Australian Public Service will become one of the ... |
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| 24.11.2023 | How Australia’s seven-year cybersecurity plan can succeed | Source: Unsplash/ Dan Nelson article-article-body
After lengthy deliberation, the Australian government has released its 2023–2030 Cyber Security Strategy, which aims to make Australia one of the most cyber-secure nations in the world by 20... |
| 23.10.2023 | The importance of a robust video data management strategy in the age of AI | Source: Unsplash/Thomas William article-article-body
Video footage is an incredibly valuable data asset. As well as having forensic value, it can be used to train AI and machine learning models. And while today’s threat actors are only gett... |
| 18.10.2023 | What Australian IT Leaders Need to Focus on Ahead of Privacy Act Reforms | Sonia Sharma, Maddocks partner
Australian organisations are showing varying levels of preparedness when it comes to data privacy, with Maddocks partner Sonia Sharma saying they need to get ahead of legislative change because the conversatio... |
| 08.09.2023 | Australian Data Breach Costs are Rising — What Can IT Leaders Do? | Image: Creativa Images/Adobe Stock
There’s a good reason Australian organizations are more conscious than ever of the risk of a data breach in 2023. In recent years senior IT professionals, along with many everyday Australians, have witness... |
| 10.05.2023 | Latitude Financial faces first-ever joint A/NZ privacy investigation | Latitude Financial is facing a joint investigation by privacy watchdogs in Australia and New Zealand over its personal information handling practices following a large-scale data breach.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner... |
| 24.04.2023 | Gov warned to tread carefully in cyber security review | Australia’s privacy regulator is concerned that changes to cyber security regulation in Australia could undermine its ability to respond to privacy breaches.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has aired its concern... |
| 08.03.2023 | Australia's Facebook lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica clears major hurdle | Australia's privacy watchdog can proceed with a Federal Court case against Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal after the High Court declined to intervene.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) originally beg... |
| 01.03.2023 | Australia had five data breaches that hit 1 million or more people | Five data breaches that occurred in the back half of 2022 impacted at least 1 million people, according to the latest statistics by the the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).
As iTnews reported yesterday, a freedom of... |
| 28.02.2023 | Australian orgs lodged 497 data breach notices in back half of 2022 | Australian organisations experienced nearly 500 notifiable data breaches in the back half of last year, a 26 percent increase on the first half and the highest figures since late 2020.
While the Office of the Australian Information Commissi... |
| 23.02.2023 | Services Australia finds 'high risk' vulnerability in identity exchange | Services Australia said it has “actioned” several security-related vulnerabilities found in an identity exchange it operates for the government’s digital identity system, including one rated 'high risk'.
The vulnerabilities were uncovered i... |
| 17.01.2023 | Australian Finsure brokers gain access to open banking data | Australian mortgage aggregator Finsure said its brokers are the first in the country to be able to access open banking data in a "trusted adviser" capacity.
The federal government introduced changes to the consumer data right (CDR... |
| 07.12.2022 | Higher data breach penalties a wake-up call to business | As high-profile organisations deal with public scrutiny from recent data breaches, the breadth of the data they held has also been exposed.
The breaches revealed driver’s licence and passport numbers, information about customers who had bee... |
| 01.12.2022 | Medibank hackers declare ‘case closed’ as trove of stolen data is released | The cybercriminals behind the Medibank ransomware attack have published what appears to be the rest of the data stolen from the Australian health insurance giant.
The attackers, believed to be linked to the Russian-backed REvil ransomware g... |
| 16.11.2022 | Debunking three myths about cyberattacks so your small business can be better protected | Source: Unsplash/Freestocks.
Why would a sophisticated cyberattacker want to target a small business like mine?
It’s one of the most frequent questions I hear in conversations with clients and one that is full of misunderstandings.
There is... |
| 21.10.2022 | Cyberattacks a matter of ‘when’ not ‘if’ as experts say Australian business has always been a target | The last four weeks have seen a string of high-profile data breaches and hacks. Attacks on Optus, Medibank, Woolworths, Vinomofo and more have resulted in the personal details of millions of Australians being threatened, exposed and in some... |
| 18.10.2022 | Vinomofo has admitted to a major data breach – but your drinking habits are safe | Source: Supplied
Vinomofo has admitted to a data breach where the personal information of customers has been stolen.
The online wine retailer sent customers an email about the breach on Monday evening. It revealed that some of the details t... |
| 11.10.2022 | OAIC opens Optus investigation | The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and the Australian Communications and Media Authority have today launched investigations into Optus’ massive data breach.
It's thought roughly 2.8 million Optus customers had thei... |
| 03.10.2022 | Why did Optus keep the identity data of millions for six years? | Source: Bianca De Marchi / AAP Image
Among the many questions raised by the Optus data leak — cybersecurity experts are confident it wasn’t a hack, but that may have to be decided by a court — is why the company was storing so much personal... |
| 28.09.2022 | CBA, Australia Post, Binance and more assure customers their data is safe after Optus breach | A growing number of Australian businesses are taking the opportunity to remind customers of their own robust security measures in the wake of the Optus hack. Emails have been going out to customers from a variety of industries, including ba... |
| 23.09.2022 | Optus Cyber-attack | What You Need to Know | Major Australian telecoms company, Optus, has revealed details of a massive cyber-attack that hit its systems this week.
It is believed that the hackers gained access to the details of millions of current and previous customers in what coul... |
| 09.09.2022 | Big Aussie banks side with Google, Facebook and Amazon against data localisation rules | Australia’s big banks have heavily backed in US technology giants Google, Facebook and Amazon to oppose any prospect of forcing them to house Australian customer data onshore, despite growing safety concerns among security agencies, regulat... |
| 22.07.2022 | Hyper-collection: How Bunnings, eBay and Netflix are contributing to the mass surveillance of Australians | Source: Shutterstock.
You walk into a shopping centre to buy some groceries. Without your knowledge, an electronic scan of your face is taken by in-store surveillance cameras and stored in an online database. Each time you return to that st... |
| 27.06.2022 | The problem with insurers using social media and AI to determine premium costs | Source: Unsplash/Possessed Photography
Insurance premiums may soon be decided by artificial intelligence and personal profiles created from social media data — if they aren’t already — according to researchers concerned about the industry’s... |
| 22.02.2022 | Australian gov data breach numbers slip out of public view | The Australian government fell outside the top industry sectors for data breaches in the second half of 2021, despite agencies logging 28 notifications during the six-month period.
The latest notifiable data breaches report [pdf], released ... |
| 16.12.2021 | Australian Federal Police restricts free software trials after Clearview AI | The Australian Federal Police’s trial of controversial facial recognition database Clearview AI was effectively ‘shadow IT’, officially unapproved and undertaken without a formal privacy assessment.
An investigation by the Office of the Aus... |
| 13.12.2021 | AFP, Vic Police and Illion requested Victorian QR code data | The Australian Federal Police (AFP), Victoria Police and credit checking firm Illion requested QR code check-in data from the Victorian Health Department, according to documents released to iTnews through a Freedom of Information (FoI) requ... |
| 09.12.2021 | UK Government Says Clearview Owes It $23 Million For Violating Privacy Laws | Well, it couldn't happen to a more deserving shitheel. Clearview, the tech company with 10 billion facial recognition images and zero shame, has now been uninvited from the largest portions of the British Empire. |
| 09.12.2021 | UK Government Says Clearview Owes It $23 Million For Violating Privacy Laws | Well, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving shitheel. Clearview, the tech company with 10 billion facial recognition images and zero shame, has now been uninvited from the largest portions of the British Empire. |
| 22.11.2021 | Australia has a cybercrime under-reporting problem | Threats against corporate targets may be exponentially larger than they appear, writes Murray Mills, Manager Cyber Security at IT consultancy Tecala.
When global IT and cybersecurity association ISACA declared that “under-reporting [of] cyb... |
| 11.11.2021 | Clearview Officially Kicked Out Of Australia For Violation Country's Privacy Laws | Clearview -- the facial recognition tech company whose unproven AI runs searches on 10 billion images scraped from the web -- has been booted from another country. |
| 11.11.2021 | Clearview Officially Kicked Out Of Australia For Violation Country's Privacy Laws | Clearview — the facial recognition tech company whose unproven AI runs searches on 10 billion images scraped from the web — has been booted from another country. |
| 03.11.2021 | Clearview AI told it broke Australia’s privacy law, ordered to delete data | After Canada, now Australia has found that controversial facial recognition company, Clearview AI, broke national privacy laws when it covertly collected citizens’ facial biometrics and incorporated them into its AI-powered identity matchin... |
| 03.11.2021 | Cop-used Clearview AI breached Australians' privacy, investigation finds | Clearview AI, whose facial recognition database was trialled by Australian police agencies last year, breached Australian privacy rules with its operating model.
The company scrapes people’s photos from the web and then allows users to uplo... |
| 14.10.2021 | 7-Eleven Found to Collect Customer Facial Imagery Without Consent Breaching Customer Privacy | Urian B., Tech Times 14 October 2021, 05:10 am
(Photo : Image from Commons.Wikipedia.com) 7-Eleven Found to Collect Customer Facial Imagery Without Consent Breaching Customer Privacy
7-Eleven was found to breach customer privacy by collecti... |
| 14.10.2021 | 7-Eleven disables facial image capture on customer feedback tablets | 7-Eleven Australia has destroyed facial images it collected via an in-store tablet used by customers to rate their service experience, and disabled the data collection on an ongoing basis following a privacy investigation.
The convenience s... |
| 27.09.2021 | Soon the vaccinated will be able to visit shops and cafes – but what about your staff? | The New South Wales and Victorian governments have released detailed roadmaps outlining how they’ll ease restrictions across Sydney and Melbourne, but what does this mean for your business and your staff? asks Holly Seale, UNSW.
A feature o... |
| 23.08.2021 | Australian businesses stop reporting ransomware attacks over exfiltration doubts | Australian businesses are incorrectly relying on what they think is a loophole in notifiable data breach laws to avoid reporting ransomware infections.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) warned that “a number of en... |
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| 23.07.2021 | Uber found to have breached privacy of 1.2 million Aussies in 2016 | Uber failed to appropriately protect the personal data of more than a million Australian customers and drivers when it was compromised in a 2016 hack, the privacy commission has found.
In a long-awaited determination released on Friday, pri... |
| 12.07.2021 | CURO Expands Asia Pacific Presence, Compensation Management and Pay Equity Solutions Now Available in AWS Sydney | OTTAWA and EDINBURGH, United Kingdom, July 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CURO Compensation Limited (CURO), an industry leader in total compensation management and pay equity technology, today shared details of its ongoing expansion across th... |
| 21.06.2021 | Tyro Payments becomes accredited data holder | Eftpos provider Tyro Payments has joined a growing list of financial organisations in becoming an accredited data holder under the consumer data right (CDR).
Tyro, which has been a non-major authorised deposit-taking institution (ADI) since... |
| 04.02.2021 | The State of Open Banking in Australia in 2021 | The introduction of the Consumer Data Right (CRM) on July 1, 2020 saw the launch of the first phase of open banking in Australia, marking the debut of a new era in the domestic banking sector.
Now more than six months into CDR and open bank... |
| 28.01.2021 | OAIC finds 'multiple' Australian companies downplaying data breaches | Australia’s privacy watchdog has taken aim at a growing number of organisations that it says take too long to assess data breaches or that downplay the significance in customer notifications.
The Office of the Australian Information Commiss... |
| 28.01.2021 | Australian govt entity hit by brute-force attack | An undisclosed Australian government entity suffered a data breach following a brute-force attack in the back half of last year, one of 33 breaches that agencies reported.
The 33 notifiable data breaches in six months put the Australian gov... |
| 27.01.2021 | Home Affairs ordered to compensate asylum seekers over 2014 data breach | The Department of Home Affairs has been ordered to compensate almost 1300 asylum seekers for inadvertently publishing their personal information online in 2014.
It comes six years after the then Department of Immigration and Border Protecti... |
| 26.08.2020 | Should bosses spy on workers? How businesses can solve the COVID-19 productivity puzzle | Xugar founder Sagar Sethi. Source: supplied.
Like many business owners, Sagar Sethi has directed all his staff to work remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
But the founder of digital agency Xugar has realised there’s a big difference betw... |
| 31.07.2020 | OAIC records highest ever number of monthly data breaches | A sharp increase in the number of data breaches caused by ransomware attacks and the highest ever number of monthly notifications has been recorded over the past six months.
The findings are contained in the Office of the Australian Informa... |
| 14.07.2020 | From 7-Eleven to Aus Pol: The rapid expansion of facial recognition technology in Australia, and the laws keeping it in check | By Rick Sarre, University of South Australia
Facial recognition technology is increasingly being trialled and deployed around Australia. Queensland and Western Australia are reportedly already using real-time facial recognition through CCTV... |
| 07.04.2020 | Australian health sector does not have 'cybersecurity problem', says insurer | Australia’s healthcare sector does not have a “broader cybersecurity problem” despite consistently reporting higher numbers of data breaches than other industries, according to medical indemnity insurer MIGA.
In a parliamentary submission p... |
| 13.03.2020 | Australia vs Facebook: Why the privacy watchdog is right to be taking on the tech giant | By Katharine Kemp, and Kayleen Manwaring, UNSW
On Monday, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) brought proceedings against Facebook in the Federal Court, asking the court to impose financial penalties for serious int... |
| 09.03.2020 | Australia Taking Facebook to Court Over Privacy | The Australian Information Commissioner has launched legal proceedings against Facebook, accusing the company of repeated breaches of privacy law.
Facebook allegedly used the personal information of 311,127 Australians, collected through th... |
| 09.03.2020 | Австралия хочет оштрафовать Facebook на $350 млрд за скандал с Cambridge Analytica | Александра Кукуть 9 марта 2020, 16:27 Австралия хочет оштрафовать Facebook на $350 млрд за скандал с Cambridge Analytica
Австралийские правозащитники подали в суд на Facebook. Соцсеть обвиняют в передаче персональных данных более 300 тысяч ... |
| 09.03.2020 | Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica, fine could scale to $529BN | Australia’s privacy watchdog is suing Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica data breach — which, back in 2018, became a global scandal that wiped billions off the tech giant’s share price yet only led to Facebook picking up a $5BN FTC fine.... |
| 09.03.2020 | Australian privacy watchdog sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica scandal | Australia’s privacy watchdog is pursuing Facebook in the federal court over privacy breaches relating to the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner began proceedings against the so... |
| 09.03.2020 | Austrália processa Facebook por vazar dados de 311 mil usuários | O Facebook é acusado de expor dados pessoais de 311 mil usuários da Austrália, algo revelado durante o escândalo Cambridge Analytica: a empresa está sendo processada pelo OAIC (Gabinete da Comissária Australiana de Informações), órgão estat... |
| 14.02.2020 | Valentine credit data crackdown delivers kiss of death for online fraud | It might be Valentine’s Day, but there will be no bouquets for debt collectors and online payment card fraudsters hoarding personal details, all thanks to a small but lethal tweak quietly delivered by the Office of the Australian Informatio... |
| 06.12.2019 | Organisations still not getting cybersecurity fundamentals right - Wavelink | By Ilan Rubin
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| 16.09.2019 | China blamed for Australian parliament hack | Australian intelligence determined China was responsible for a cyber-attack on its national parliament and three largest political parties before the general election in May, five people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
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| 28.08.2019 | OAIC reduces frequency of data breach reporting | The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is reducing the frequency of its statistical reporting on data breaches from every three months to six months, despite a steady stream of notifications in its latest report.
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| 07.08.2019 | NSW govt considers making data breach reporting mandatory | The NSW government has begun reviewing its voluntary data breach notification scheme to determine whether the state's agencies and local councils should be required to report data breaches.
The Department of Communities and Justice last mon... |
| 18.07.2019 | Aussie finance sector attributes the most data breaches to "hacking" | Australia’s finance sector is the vertical that is most likely to attribute a data breach to "hacking", numbers released Thursday afternoon show.
A document [pdf] released by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (... |
| 02.07.2019 | Franking credits website blasted by Privacy Commissioner | The data assets of Australia’s political parties and their candidates are notoriously exempt from the Privacy Act, but proxy campaigns waged by their sympathetic friends and relatives are definitely not, a fresh action by the nation’s data ... |
| 21.06.2019 | NSW opposition reignites push for mandatory data breach laws | The NSW opposition has reignited its push to force state government agencies to report data breaches after its last attempt to introduce legislation was scuttled by the government.
Shadow attorney general Paul Lynch on Thursday reintroduced... |
| 23.05.2019 | Phishing emails and human error: Almost 1,000 data breaches reported in 12 months | There were 964 data breaches reported to the federal regulator in the first year of mandatory reporting rules, and “malicious or criminal attacks” were behind 60% of cases, with most of the remainder caused by human error and only 5% blamed... |
| 27.03.2019 | Facebook says up to 111,813 Aussies in last year's security breach | Facebook has revealed that a mass security breach of its systems last year “may have” affected the personal information of up 111,813 Australian users.
In September last year, hackers exploited three linked bugs to steal name, contact and o... |
| 01.03.2019 | Seven ways the government can make Australians safer — without compromising online privacy | Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas.
By Damien Manuel, Deakin University
When it comes to data security, there is an inherent tension between safety and privacy. The government’s job is to balance these priorities with laws that will keep Australians s... |
| 07.02.2019 | Malicious attacks rise in Australia's latest data breach numbers | The number of Australian organisations reporting data breaches climbed to new heights last quarter, with the majority continuing to result from malicious or criminal attack.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) said ... |
| 18.12.2018 | Big W staffer gave out confidential data with printer repair | Big W suffered a privacy breach earlier this year when it accidentally added a confidential printout to a pile of test documents whilst trying to prove a customer's printer issue had been fixed.
The breach is contained in a cache of notific... |
| 21.11.2018 | Stop focusing your information security efforts on the wrong things! | There once was a time not all that long ago when security teams could plead ignorant to IT security risks, with minimal possible consequence in terms of any significant damage coming to the company. Those days are long gone. We’ve reached a... |
| 05.11.2018 | Under Armour says 4 million Aussie accounts in data breach | A massive data breach of Under Armour’s MyFitnessPal app in February impacted almost four million Australian accounts.
The data breach notification [pdf], released under freedom of information laws, said that “the company believes approxima... |
| 30.10.2018 | Australia's data breach numbers steady at 245 in three months | Australian organisations reported 245 data breaches between July and September this year, on par with the number in the prior three months.
In its quarterly statistics release from the mandatory data breach notification scheme, the Office o... |
| 31.07.2018 | Cyber attacks rise in Australia's data breach numbers | Most cyber attacks disclosed as potential data breaches by Australian companies last quarter involved compromised user credentials.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner released its highly-anticipated first full quarter of ... |
| 17.05.2018 | Does your business need to worry about the EU’s GDPR laws? | Data collection and analysis is now vital to the success of many Australian businesses. Along with the benefits that come from unlocking the data available through the various digital portals used by businesses to collect customer informati... |
| 04.05.2018 | Why your app is updating its privacy settings and how this will affect businesses | By Claudio Bozzi, Deakin University
You may have suddenly started receiving privacy updates from all the internet sites, apps and services you use. That’s because the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation becomes law on May 25... |
| 03.05.2018 | Brisbane Insuretech Edmund brings cyber insurance and emergency response to SMEs | The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) announced last week that it had received 63 notifications since the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme came into effect in late February, compared to the 114 breach notificatio... |
| 12.04.2018 | Human error (not hackers) behind most data breaches in Australia | In just six weeks, there were 63 data breach notifications to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner since the mandatory Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme came into force in February this year.
The OAIC’s first NDB report... |
| 11.04.2018 | OAIC sees 63 data breach notifications in first six weeks | Australian organisations reported 63 data breaches in the first six weeks of mandatory notification rules coming into effect, with human error listed as the most common cause.
By contrast, when organisations only had to voluntarily reveal b... |
| 05.04.2018 | Australia latest to open probe into Facebook data scandal | Australia’s privacy watchdog has opened an investigation into Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal.
Yesterday Facebook revealed that more users than previously thought could have had their personal information... |
| 31.01.2018 | What the Coincheck hack tells us about how Australian regulators will handle a cryptocurrency hack | By Philippa Ryan, University of Technology Sydney
New risk rules for cryptocurrency exchanges will be put to the test with the latest hack on Japanese exchange Coincheck. Hackers stole $US660 million worth of NEM (its native cryptocurrency)... |
| 24.01.2018 | Immigration's data breach victims could be compensated | The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) is urging those impacted by the Immigration department's 2014 data breach to contact the office as part of its determination over whether to award compensation.
The 2014 data brea... |
| 29.11.2017 | Here’s what you need to know about the massive Uber hack revealed last week | By Rohan Miller and David Oliver, University of Sydney
Uber has admitted that a 2016 data breach put at risk the personal information of 57 million Uber users worldwide and at least 600,000 drivers in the United States.
The ride-share firm’... |
| 10.10.2017 | What Australian companies should be doing right now to protect customer data | By David Glance, University of Western Australia
Australians are increasingly concerned about how companies handle their personal data, especially online.
Faced with the increasing likelihood that this data will be compromised, either throu... |
| 07.08.2017 | Blood Service escapes penalties in data breach investigation | The Australian Red Cross Blood Service and its website contractor have escaped penalties from the country's privacy watchdog over a 2016 data breach that exposed the data of 550,000 donors.
In late October last year the Blood Service reveal... |
