The Australian Digital Health Agency reported this week that My Health Record had been breached 42 times in between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018, but there were no malicious attacks involved. The ADHA said that three of the breaches had been reported to the...
According to the latest Notifiable Data Breaches report in Australia, private health is still the country’s most breached sector. The OAIC says that between July and September, it had received 245 data breach notifications, an increase of three, with two breaches impacting between 100,000 and...
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) recently revealed in its Annual Report that it had addressed a total of 19,407 privacy inquiries from 2017 to 2018, with the most common query being the use and disclosure of an individual's personal information. The Australian data...
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) announced last Thursday that it has opened an official investigation into the privacy scandal involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. After learning that the data of around 311,127 Australians had been misused by both firms, Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk...
At the iappANZ 2017 Summit held in Sydney last Tuesday, Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim revealed that a total of 2,494 privacy complaints had been sent to the OAIC this year. Pilgrim said that it was an indicator of Australian’s increasing awareness of their...
An urgent request to the Australian federal government to reform current laws to protect citizen information have been made by the Australian Privacy Foundation (APF). The APF stated the Data Breach on Equifax emphasized the importance and urgency of safeguarding the information of their constituents. In...