Senator Jacqui Lambie has unleashed on the Veterans Affairs minister for being “missing in action” over reports veterans’ data was handed to a university without their consent. The Department of Veterans Affairs routinely transferred the medical data of veterans to the University of South Australia for research purposes over twoContinue Reading
Cyber criminals have targeted yet another Australian small business by stealing and leaking the data of 10,000 people. Last month, the data of a little-known company called Event Secretary was published on an online forum. Unfortunately, Event Secretary was the platform that several major Australian horse riding organisations used toContinue Reading
The law firm investigating one of Australia’s biggest security breaches which saw a whopping 14 million records stolen – has claimed Latitude had uncovered “real risks” to its security environment before the hack but failed to act. Gordon Legal is currently investigating a class action against Latitude after the breachContinue Reading
Confidential employee information has been exposed in a data breach at Ambulance Victoria (AV). The data in question is the drug and alcohol tests of prospective graduate paramedics collected between May 2017 and October 2018. The documents had become accessible on Ambulance Victoria’s internal intranet. “Since becoming aware, AV hasContinue Reading
Medibank is facing a massive class action lawsuit in the wake of its embarrassing data breach, which resulted in the private information of millions of Aussies being shared online by hackers. Australian law firm Slater and Gordon launched court proceedings on Friday against the health care giant on behalf ofContinue Reading
More than 100,000 Optus customers have launched legal action against the telco in the wake of a cyberattack, alleging the company failed to protect their personal information. The class-action was filed in the Federal Court by law firm Slater and Gordon on Friday, who claim the breach created “very realContinue Reading
Sensitive data on schoolchildren and their parents has been accessed and published on the dark web as part of a major hack on a Tasmanian Government department. The state government is now investigating the theft of data from the Department for Education, Children and Young People, which occurred through aContinue Reading
A NSW government department has issued a warning to thousands of customers that their personal data may have been ‘exposed’. In an email sent to 3700 affected customers on Monday and seen by NCA NewsWire, Service NSW’s chief executive Greg Wells said an update to the website on March 20Continue Reading
Crown Resorts has revealed it was one of a number of organisations caught up in a global data breach. The casino giant was recently contacted by a ransomware group who claim they illegally obtained a number of files. “We are investigating the validity of this claim as a matter ofContinue Reading
Angry customers have lashed out at Australian financial service provider Latitude after its systems were hacked – which has seen sensitive personal information obtained – as millions still remain in the dark on whether they have been impacted. Chillingly, the company revealed on Friday that is was still trying toContinue Reading