In the first-ever civil penalty proceedings for breaches of the Privacy Act, pathology services provider Australian Clinical Labs has been ordered to pay $5.8 million over a 2022 data breach that compromised the sensitive personal information of 223,000 customers of its Medlab business.
The Legal Practice Board in Western Australia has revealed more data, including lawyer data, was accessed during a 21 May cyberattack than was previously thought.
Qantas has won a permanent injunction aimed at preventing unknown hackers from disseminating information accessed in a June data breach, with a judge saying the orders have “real utility” despite the hackers being beyond the reach of the court.
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.
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.
Encrypted messaging app Telegram has won its bid to delay the hearing of its challenge to a $1 million fine from the eSafety Commissioner, after complaining about a “document dump” from the regulator.
Lander & Rogers has hired a technology, data and intellectual property pro from Clayton Utz to join its team in Melbourne.
The privacy commissioner has found Kmart Australia breached privacy laws by using facial recognition technology in its stores to combat refund fraud, finding the privacy invasion was disproportionate.
Victorian Liberal deputy leader Sam Groth and his wife, Brittany, have launched the first privacy suit of its kind over two Herald Sun articles that speculated about whether their relationship began when Brittany was underage.
TPG Telecom has launched an investigation following a cyber incident which resulted in 280,000 emails of iiNet customers being accessed by hackers.