Australia has been experiencing unusually serious problems with data breaches for nearly a year now. HWL Ebsworth, one of the country's most prominent law firms, appears to have had a huge amount of client information stolen by ALPHV/BlackCat.
Magic Circle law firm Allen & Overy has confirmed a cyber attack claimed by the Russian LockBit ransomware group, which demanded a ransom and threatened to leak stolen data.
Snack giant Mondelēz International has suffered a third-party law firm data breach from its legal services provider, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, leaking sensitive personal information of over 50,000 current and former employees.
With fines and penalties (such as potential shutdown of company operations) looming in November of this year, some companies are opting to bail out of China rather than even attempt to comply with the slew of new data regulations.
Law firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP has notified more than 3.4 million people that a December 2023 data breach exposed their personal information.
