The healthcare industry has again reported the most data breaches to the privacy regulator in the first half of 2022, continuing a trend since Australia's reporting scheme began in 2018. ......
Data security and collection in the real estate industry
The real estate industry is a prime target for a cyberattack that could jeopardise millions of Australian's personal data. The industry is notorious for its invasive data collection practices. The...
Medibank data breach
Medibank Private, one of Australia's largest private health insurance companies, were the target of cyber attack this month. The breach has affected more than 4 million people, exposing personal...
Optus Data Breach
On 22 September, 2022 Optus, an Australia telecommunications provider, was hacked exposing the data of 9.8 million cusotmers. Bellow is a collection of articles published in the month since the...
Privacy, telco regulators launch Optus breach investigations
Australia’s privacy and communications regulators have launched coordinated investigations into the Optus data breach that saw the personal data of 9.8 million Australians compromised last month....
Tas youth centre staff told to shred files
Senior management of a Tasmanian youth detention facility at the centre of sexual and physical abuse allegations have instructed staff to shred incident reports, an inquiry has been told. Ashley...
She struggled to reclaim her Indigenous name
For as long as she can remember, Danita Bilozaze knew that the name on her birth certificate, "Danita Loth," didn't reflect her Indigenous identity. From the stories her mother recounted to her, she...
AFP cops a blast for poor records managment
"A report into the use of statutory powers by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has given these a pass mark but uncovered serious deficiencies in the AFP’s record-keeping practices and processes....
Historians fear Australian stories could be lost forever
Historians fear untold Australian stories could be lost without a substantial funding increase for the National Archives to prevent the disintegration of records dating back to the mid-19th century....
Brewarrina Mission connects past and present to Indigenous culture and heritage
The organisers of an inaugural open day at one of Australia's largest former Aboriginal missions hope the event will become a national movement towards Indigenous reconciliation. ... The separation...
NSW Premier’s Office broke state recordkeeping laws in ‘reckless’ destruction of documents
The NSW premier’s office broke state record-keeping laws by shredding documents related to a pork-barrelling scheme, a watchdog has found. ... An adviser to the premier in October told a...
Recordkeeping woes revealed in CBA compo claims
The Commonwealth Bank does not currently have advice files for more than one in 10 of the cases registered for its compensation scheme for victims of dodgy financial advice. A CBA update on Tuesday...
State mine fire report uncovers a litany of shocking Defence Force failures (AUS)
AN investigation into a live-firing drill that sparked one of the biggest-ever bushfires in NSW has uncovered a litany of shocking Defence Force failures, including poor record keeping of anti-tank...
Review of the parole system in Victoria (AUS)
Following the murder of Jill Meagher , the Victorian government asked retired High Court judge Ian Callinan to review the parole board. In his findings, Justice Callinan portrayed a board that was...
Abusers may be at large, says church (AUS)
Some child sex abusers might still be among Uniting Church clergy because of poor record keeping and failure to investigate cases, the church conceded on Monday. The Victorian inquiry...
Report blasts Victorian recordkeeping quagmire
The inability of former wards of the state of Victoria to access their historical records has resulted in an official report to parliament from the state Ombudsman criticising the record-keeping...
Council records on culvert were inadequate (AUS)
SENIOR officers of Gosford City Council agreed yesterday that the council's record system had failed to keep messages, emails, quotes and estimates that might have allowed proper consideration of...