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Australian Clinical Labs flags strike-out bid in OAIC data breach case
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2024-11-08 11:57 pm By Sam Matthews

Australian Clinical Labs may seek to strike out part of the OAIC’s case over a 2022 data breach, arguing it would unfairly allow the watchdog to allege both single and multiple contraventions of privacy law.

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Optus denies cyberattack was not ‘highly sophisticated’
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2024-10-22 11:11 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Optus has struck back at ACMA’s claim that a cyberattack that exposed the information of around 10 million customers was not a “highly sophisticated” operation.

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1 or 21M: Australian Clinical Labs wants court’s take on OAIC’s data breach maths
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2024-10-11 11:35 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Australian Clinical Labs, which is facing regulatory action over a 2022 data breach, is fighting the information commissioner’s claim that it breached privacy laws 21.5 million times.

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Medibank admits lack of multi-factor authentication partly to blame for breach
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2024-10-01 11:21 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Medibank has denied breaching privacy rules in response to the regulator’s case over a 2022 cyber attack, but has admitted sensitive data was hacked in part because its network lacked multi-factor authentication. 

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Data breach numbers hit three and a half year high, OAIC says
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2024-09-16 11:02 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The privacy regulator was alerted to hundreds of data breaches in the first half of 2024, the highest number in three and a half years, a new report shows.

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Privacy reform kicks off with new tort for ‘serious’ invasions
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2024-09-12 10:36 pm By Andy Sidler

A promised overhaul of the Privacy Act has begun with reforms that make doxxing a crime and could see businesses face new claims, including class actions, for serious invasions of privacy.

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OAIC won’t investigate facial recognition software company Clearview AI again
AI 2024-08-26 11:50 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The OAIC will not investigate Clearview AI further after finding in 2021 that the US-based facial recognition software company breached privacy rules by scraping facial images from the web, but the regulator promised to weigh in soon on when the use of personal information to train AI could run afoul of privacy laws.

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HWL Ebsworth hit with representative OAIC complaint over data breach
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2024-06-28 11:58 am By Cindy Cameronne

Law firm HWL Ebsworth is facing a representative complaint filed with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner over a 2023 cyber attack, which allegedly compromised the data of 65 government agencies and affected NDIS participants. 

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In high-stakes breach case, OAIC says Medibank failed to implement ‘basic’ security controls
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2024-06-19 11:34 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Medibank failed to put in place baseline security measures, including multi-factor authentication, to safeguard sensitive information from a hacker in 2022, who stole an IT contractor’s credentials and logged in to the health insurer’s private network three months before the company learned its data was compromised, the OAIC says.

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Judge mulls joint trial of ACMA case, class action against Optus
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2024-06-14 3:35 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge overseeing several cases against Optus over a September 2022 data breach has raised the possibility of hearing a class action against the telco alongside new proceedings brought by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

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