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Facial recognition platform Clearview broke privacy laws by scraping images, AAT says
US facial recognition company Clearview breached Australian privacy laws by trawling the web for photos of Australians for use by law enforcement agencies, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has found.
Data privacy enforcement gets $45.2M boost in Albanese budget
Enforcement of Australia's privacy laws, including funding for the privacy commissioner to litigate companies for major privacy and data breaches, received a $45.2 million investment in Tuesday's federal budget.
‘Well behind where they ought to be’: Recent data breaches a wake up call for law firms
With legal practices shaping up as a ripe target for cyberattacks, experts say many firms have a long way to go in implementing best practice cybersecurity to avoid potentially “catastrophic” outcomes.
Class actions pile up over Medibank data breach
Private health insurer Medibank has been served with a second class action over a data breach exposing the personal details of 10 million customers.
Medibank defence says data breach class action ‘hopeless’
Private health insurer Medibank has hit back at a class action over a data breach that affected close to 10 million customers, describing the claims as “hopeless.”
HWL Ebsworth may have fallen victim to cyberattack
Hacking group ALPHV claims it has stolen a large amount of data from law firm HWL Ebsworth, including employee and client information.
Deloitte report into Medibank cyberattack to be kept secret
Private health insurer Medibank has not released a Deloitte report into last year's cyberattack that exposed the private information of 10 million customers.
Optus hit with class action over data breach
Optus has been hit with a class action on behalf of current and former customers whose personal information was exposed in a massive data breach last September that affected up to 10 million people. 
IPH says hacker downloaded data on Spruson & Ferguson clients
Intellectual property group IPH has revealed that a limited set of data originating from Spruson & Ferguson's systems, including client information, was downloaded by an unauthorised third party in last month's cyber attack.
Latitude won’t pay ransom for stolen customer data
Latitude Financial will not pay a ransom demanded by criminals after 14 million customer records were stolen in a "malicious" cyberattack.