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Optus has suffered another Triple Zero outage, just over a week after a 13-hour outage across three states that was linked to the deaths of three people.

In the first penalty to be handed down for breaches of the Privacy Act, pathology services provider Australian Clinical Labs has agreed to cop a $5.8 million fine over a 2022 data breach that compromised the personal information of 223,000 customers of its Medlab business.

Cryptocurrency exchanges will be required to hold an Australian Financial Services Licence under proposed legislation announced by assistant treasurer Dr Daniel Mulino.

Telstra has reached an agreement with the consumer regulator after a court found the telco misled thousands of broadband customers about the speed of its budget internet provider, Belong.

Piper Alderman claims a judge erred in finding there was no evidence that an agreement between Maurice Blackburn and Phi Finney McDonald to cooperate in running an ad tech class action against Google was struck for an anti-competitive purpose.

A former contractor at the ASX has alleged the securities exchange was "embarrassed" by governance failures relating to a $200 million technology modernisation program and sought to hide the issues from the Reserve Bank of Australia. 

A judge has signed of on a settlement struck by the liquidator for failed financial services firm Babcock & Brown, which will resolve all remaining and future shareholder disputes, which have beleaguered the liquidator for 12 years.

Elanor Funds Management's board on Friday unanimously recommended that securityholders reject the takeover offer and provided an expert independent report from Kroll Group that concluded the offer of $0.70 in cash per stapled security undervalued the fund.

An appeals court has binned construction firm Shamrock's second bid to toss waste management firm Cleanaway’s $31 million claim for costs associated with cleanup of an Ipswich dump following a flood.

Puma has lost its opposition to a trade mark application by Tiger Woods' golf apparel and equipment brand Sun Day Red, failing to convince the Trade Marks Office that the company's logo is deceptively similar to its iconic leaping cat mark.