Customers affected by a cyberattack on a Qantas call centre that held the records of six million people may be able to bring a class action against the airline, an expert has said.
A cyber criminal has targeted a Qantas call centre that holds the records of six million customers, in an attack exposing a “significant” amount of data.
A new statutory tort targeting serious invasions of privacy came into effect on Tuesday, raising new risks for companies, including publishers.
Police will not lay charges over an email sent to Slater & Gordon staff that leaked employees’ pay details, the plaintiff firm said Thursday.
A judge has sent to the Full Federal Court Medibank’s fight to shield Deloitte reports into a data breach, raising concerns about how evidence from a solicitor and the health insurer’s inhouse lawyer was previously treated.
The Legal Practice Board in Western Australia has confirmed it was the victim of a data breach, with the bank details of the board and a small number of practitioners said to have been accessed.
Businesses and government agencies notified the privacy regulator of over 1,100 data breaches last year, the highest annual total since mandatory reporting started in 2018. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner revealed on Tuesday that it was notified of 1,113 notifications last year, marking a 25 per cent increase from 893 notifications in 2023. …
Cybercrime detectives have arrested a suspect in their probe of a major data breach of the NSW online court system that exposed thousands of sensitive files.
Encrypted messaging app Telegram is taking the eSafety Commissioner to court, in a challenge to a $1 million fine for delays in reporting on its handling of terrorism and child abuse material.
A judge has lambasted the corporate regulator’s decision to yield to FIIG Securities’ pleadings demands in its sophomore cyber enforcement case, but said he was “happy to let ASIC flounder” if it would not put up a fight.