Medibank is Australia’s largest health insurance provider with some 3.7 million customers. In some cases, medical records are among the health insurance policies and the thief had named about 1,000 high-profile or at-risk people.
A statement of claim attached to mandatory court filings reveals that the ACMA will frame the Optus data breach as a case of negligence, asserting that the company failed to address an access control coding error that it had known about for some years.
Australian Clinical Labs reportedly detected the attack not long after it occurred and was contacted by government authorities in March, and were also notified in June that some of the patient data had been found available for sale on the dark web.
The announcement has raised questions in some circles as to what the extent of the cyber task force's plans are. "Hacking back" is a very contentious concept that exists in a murky international water of cyber engagement norms and unspoken rules.
A new system of warrants grants Australian police broad powers to infiltrate and even modify the online accounts of suspected cybercriminals, in the name of combating dark web transactions and anonymization.
Australia's OAIC has called for law enforcement to be blocked from accessing Covid contact tracing data to track suspects via their check-in histories, saying that it threatens to undermine public participation in the program.
The Austrian data protection authority has found that the IP addresses and identifiers in Google Analytics cookie data were sufficiently personal to constitute a GDPR violation for purposes of transfer to the US.
Austrian GDPR Complaint Claims OpenAI Refuses to Correct Potentially Libelous ChatGPT Hallucinations
Filed by data privacy crusader Max Schrems and his group "noyb," the GDPR complaint asserts that OpenAI refuses to correct ChatGPT output about individuals and will simply try to filter or block requests tied to that name. The complaint also accuses OpenAI of failing to live up to their subject access request (SAR) responsibilities under EU rules.
Users are still not trusting secure authentication methods like biometric recognition despite their fear of increasing cyber threats during COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.
British authorities have slapped the cuffs on four suspects linked to the Marks & Spencer cyber attack that disrupted its Click and Collect services, costing the company over $300 million.
