The Attorney-General has proposed an overhaul of Australia’s privacy laws that would allow consumers to sue for Privacy Act breaches and bring in an EU-style right to be forgotten.
A landmark Federal Court class action against private health insurer Medibank will be a test case for when privacy claims can sidestep the regulatory path, and whether group members can prove they suffered loss from exposure of their data.
Australia’s largest private health insurer Medibank is facing a class action over a data breach that affected close to 10 million customers.
Three class action law firms have joined forces to run a landmark data breach complaint against Medibank, seeking compensation for up to 9.7 million affected customers.
Medibank was formally notified Tuesday of a class action-style complaint brought on behalf of millions of customers in the wake of last month’s massive data breach.
The Australian unit of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has been fined $2 million for sending million of emails that violated spam laws.
The personal details of 130,000 Telstra customers were accidentally released in a privacy breach the result of a “misalignment of databases”, the telecommunications giant has revealed.
Medibank faces a representative proceeding over last month’s data breach that exposed the sensitive information of millions of customers, as the private health insurer reveals more stolen data was posted online overnight.
Despite recent class actions against Medibank and Optus for cybersecurity breaches, class actions over cyber attacks will not become common because they involve “a lot of work for not a lot of money”, a lawyer has predicted.
Medibank is facing another class action investigation over a massive data breach that left the personal information of almost 10 million customers exposed, just days after criminals began publishing sensitive customer health data.