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Qantas passengers’ personal details exposed as airline app logs users into wrong account

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Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. Clare Gemmell from Sydney said that she and four colleagues encountered the problem shortly after 8.30 on Wednesday morning.

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‘Absolute joke’: customers’ personal data exposed amid Pandemonium Rocks festival refund stoush

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Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. But when Gilroy hit the send button on her partial refund application, which would have recouped $140 of her outlay of $516 for two tickets, her anger turned to disbelief.

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Federal government could pay millions in compensation over asylum seeker data breach

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The mass data breach, discovered by Guardian Australia in 2014 , resulted in information being used, in some cases, to allegedly threaten asylum seekers , or persecute and even jail their family members. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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Ombudsman argues against allowing journalists access to their own search warrants

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It comes after a four-year battle by Guardian Australia to obtain such warrants, and has led to renewed calls for the warrant scheme to be scrapped. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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Australia news live: Coalition’s Jane Hume defends Reserve Bank governor, saying ‘poor old Philip Lowe is doing his job’

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Follow live Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Patricia Karvelas challenges Littleproud ’s Covid reasoning behind the Murray-Darling Basin delays on ABC RN this morning.

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Optus loses court bid to keep report into cause of cyber-attack secret

The Guardian Data Protection

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. After the hack, the company announced in October last year that it had recruited consultancy firm Deloitte to conduct a forensic assessment of what had led to the cyber-attack.

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The owner of Bunnings and Kmart is now in the prescriptions business, raising fears over patient data

The Guardian Data Protection

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. The business covers 300 low-risk drugs that patients can either pick up from a pharmacist or get delivered directly to their home.

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