Australia has been swimming in a perilous ocean for years,but we’re only just seeing the waves.
One of Australia’s largest proxy advisers is recommending REA Group investors vote against the re-election of Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin to the board amid the fallout from the telco’s hacking scandal.
Almost one million Victorians who were victims of the Optus data hack will receive a new driver’s licence containing an additional number to protect them from identity theft.
Dennis Su was arrested last month and charged with dealing with identification information and using a telecommunications network with intent to commit a serious offence.
Cybersecurity Minister Clare O’Neil is a master of invective but it is only the Medibank hackers who she has likened to “dogs” and “scum”.
The maximum penalty for serious breaches will jump from $2.2 million to $50 million - but big firms could be fined up to 30 per cent of turnover.
As the private health insurer deals with the fallout,clues are starting to emerge about how hackers were able to break into the company.
Credit monitoring firm Equifax is scrambling to register new users after being inundated with Optus customers caught up in last month’s data breach.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has been formally confirmed as in charge of cybercrime,even though Clare O’Neil is cybersecurity minister.
A government regulatory agency has been embroiled in a hack on an IT services firm owned by Optus’ parent company Singtel.
Exposed passport numbers will be largely disabled from being used to verify their owner’s identity as a security measure.