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30 November 2022
Financial services company Latitude has disclosed that the severity of its data breach in mid-March is much worse than initially reported. In a statement made on 16 March, Latitude announced 225,000 customer documents were stolen by attackers using employee login credentials. However, the number of records exposed is now expected to rise to 14 million […]
Acer has confirmed one of its servers has been hacked with 160GB of data being accessed. The Taiwanese PC manufacturer recently detected unauthorised access to one of its document servers for repair technicians. On March 6 a threat actor posted on a popular hacking forum that they had obtained a hoard of technical data from […]
PT Bank Commonwealth (PTCB), the Indonesian subsidiary of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), has announced it has suffered a major cyber security attack. The criminals who claim to be behind the attack said they have obtained data from 162 million users. The cyber attack occurred when unauthorised parties accessed a web-based software application used […]
LastPass suffers second data breach in 5 months Password management app Last Pass has announced hackers have breached its cloud storage containing customer data. This is the second time the company has been targeted in five months, after a similar breach in August. Cyber attackers gained access to the company’s developer environment using a hacked […]
Google Bypasses Privacy, Puts Users’ Data on the Map Google’s handling of user data has long been a subject of concern for data privacy enthusiasts. While the tech giant has undergone a comparatively low number of data breaches in recent history, its hold over the Android platform allows them to harvest an unprecedented amount of data. Now, […]
Government passes bill increasing data breach penalties to $50m The Australian Government has passed a bill that will significantly increase the penalty for businesses that suffer repeated or major data breaches. The Privacy Legislation Amendment (Enforcement and Other Measures) Bill 2022 will increase the civil penalty from $2.2 million, to the penalty that bears the […]