Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Publicly Available Facts Australian Clinical Labs Limited is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and operates one of the largest pathology businesses in Australia. Similarly, the Australian telecommunications company, Optus, suffered a large-scale data breach in September 2022 and is facing a consumer class action.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Anyone with a passing interest in Australian privacy laws will no doubt have heard about the Optus data breach. They must however still be carrying on a business in Australia. Author: Sarah Birkett. million Australians being made available on the dark web.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Also nabbed on the lam is Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov , a senior Ukrainian member of a transnational cybercrime group that stole tens of millions of dollars over nearly a decade from countless hacked businesses. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland. A report commissioned by Sen.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The company confirmed that threat actors had access to information on 323 residential and small business customers but ‘no evidence’ of data exfiltration. Other major Australian organizations recently suffered security breaches, including Optus and Medibank. EnergyAustralia is the country’s third-largest energy retailer.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2021

Such enterprises typically aggregate large volumes of sensitive data belonging to their clients in face of businesses and individuals. ‘Marketo’ is known for attacking enterprises where the data leak will be critical for their business.” ” – said Gene Yoo, Chief Executive Officer of Resecurity , Inc.,

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The small business exemption under the Act is also being reviewed; it is likely that we will see some changes here, particularly as this has always been a stumbling block in discussions around Australian’s ‘adequacy’ under EU law regimes, including EU/UK GDPR. What should I do now?

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mexico confirms hack of military records (unknown) Randolph-area school district disables its own website following transphobic hack (unknown) Australia’s Telstra hit by data breach, two weeks after attack on Optus (unknown) Patient details compromised in cyber attack on health provider Pinnacle (unknown) CHI Health faces ‘IT security incident’ impacting (..)

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