data breach
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Which Bank Lost The Personal Financial Histories Of 12 Million Customers?
9The Commonwealth Bank, one of several large institutions on the back foot over how they treat customers in the Banking Royal Commission, has revealed that they lost the details of 12 million customers as the result of a contractor losing a stash of tape drives. Those drives contained banking statements for customers from 2004 to…
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Australia’s Notifiable Data Breaches Laws Start Today – What If You’re Not Ready?
Australian’s new Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme comes into effect today. If you fall under the broad swathe of organisations that needs to to comply with the Privacy Act, then the NDB applies to you. But if you’ve not being paying attention and haven’t been preparing for this, don’t panic. You can get yourself moving…
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Massive Password Trove Published
If you had any doubts that criminals were in investing in technology, then this will allay those concerns. By aggregating the data from over 250 separate breaches, cybercriminals have created an easily accessed and usable treasure trove with 1.4 billion clear text log-in credentials according to security researchers 4iQ. If you’re in the habit of…
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Uber’s Data Woes Highlight Why Mandatory Breach Notification Is A Good Thing
It has been revealed that Uber was the victim of a cyber-attack that resulted in the personal data of 57 million customers being exposed. And if that wasn’t bad enough, it is also being reported that the many paid the hackers $100,000 to keep quiet and delete the data. Under European and Australian laws that…