Tag: data breach

Rising cyber breaches demand urgent board leadership

Posted on   |  by Jason Stevens
With 76,000 cyber crimes last year, roughly one incident every 7 minutes, Australian boards are struggling to address the social impacts of organisational security breaches in the face of...

100,000-strong class action launched over Optus data breach

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
More than 100,000 Optus customers whose personal information was compromised in last year’s cyber-attack have launched legal proceedings against the Singaporean-owned telco. The class action was filed in the...

Optus, Medibank breaches the ‘tip of the iceberg’: O’Neil

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s two most high profile cyber incidents that exposed millions of people’s personal information are only the “tip of the iceberg”, Cybersecurity minister Clare O’Neil said on Tuesday, warning...

The blind spot in Australia’s approach to privacy reform

Posted on   |  by Jordan Wilson-Otto
After the horrific and upsetting breaches involving Optus, Medibank and others, the federal government acted swiftly, dramatically bolstering our privacy regime. The penalties facing Australian businesses that infringe our...

‘Flawed’ data breach penalty laws pass Parliament

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Legislation that significantly increases fines against companies for privacy breaches has sailed through Parliament with support from the Opposition, despite enduring concerns around the operation and practicality of the...

NSW gets first state-based data breach notice scheme

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
New South Wales will have Australia’s first mandatory data breach notification scheme for public sector entities in place within a year after state government legislation passed Parliament. The Privacy...