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Cyberattack on Hachette Australia Leaves Bookshops Without Stock During Peak Season
A breach of the publisher's computer systems on 18 July has frozen book distribution across Australia and New Zealand, hitting authors, retailers, and readers at the worst possible moment in the retail calendar.
Fake ABC News Pages and a Swiss 'Broker' Who Never Existed: Inside a $500,000 Investment Scam
An international fraud network, linked to Israel and operating call centres across several countries, has taken hundreds of millions of dollars from victims worldwide, including thousands of Australians, using fabricated news sites, invented trading profits, and fake debts.
Roblox Signs Legal Agreement with Australian Regulators After Adults Found Able to Contact Children Without Parental Consent
Australia's online safety watchdog found that adult accounts on Roblox could see children's profiles and send them connection requests, all without a parent ever knowing. Now Roblox has put its promises in writing.
Quest Apartment Hotels Investigating Customer Data Breach Tied to Third-Party Provider
Personal details of Quest guests, including names, email addresses and some dates of birth, were exposed after criminals broke into a database through a flaw in an outside supplier's system.
Nearly a Million Australians' Data Stolen in Origin Energy Breach Traced to Manila Call Centre
A former employee at a Manila-based Accenture office allegedly took customer records belonging to roughly 900,000 Origin Energy customers and tried to extort the company for money to return them.
Airlock Digital Passes Australia's Toughest Government Security Check
The Australian application control firm has cleared an independent IRAP assessment at PROTECTED level, giving government and critical-infrastructure buyers one more piece of evidence for their due-diligence files.
Australian Supermarkets Are Testing Face-Scanning Technology on Shoppers
Coles and Woolworths have confirmed trials of facial recognition software in their stores. Privacy advocates say collecting biometric data from grocery shoppers crosses a line.
Fake celebrity interviews and AI-generated 'news' are fuelling an investment scam surge in Australia
Australia's corporate regulator removed nearly 20,000 scam websites last year, as criminals use AI-generated deepfakes of politicians and financial commentators to make phoney investment schemes look real.
FBI Probe Into Chinese Espionage Front Ensnares a Small Brisbane Consultancy
A legitimate Australian firm called Horizzen found itself flooded with job applications meant for a fake version of its business. That fake site was one of 13 seized by the US Department of Justice as part of an alleged Chinese espionage operation.
Australia's Corporate Watchdog Warns Deepfake Scams Stole $7.4 Million, With the Prime Minister as the Most-Used Face
ASIC says criminals are using AI-generated fake videos of Anthony Albanese and other public figures to trick Australians into bogus investment schemes, with losses topping $7.4 million.
Nick Scali Hit by Cyberattack: Orders Delayed, Systems Offline, Customers Left Waiting
Australia's $1.4 billion furniture retailer is working through a network shutdown that has stalled deliveries across the country, and most customers only found out when their table never arrived.
When an AI Bot Causes Harm, Who Pays? Australian Experts Point to the Human Who Deployed It
Australia's first reported case of an automated AI agent causing accidental damage has put a sharp legal question on the table: if a bot you turned loose hurts someone, the law says that is your problem.
Origin Energy's Data Breach Is a Window Into Australia's Worsening Cyber Problem
Nine hundred thousand customers had their details exposed. Two university professors say the breach is neither surprising nor isolated, and that ordinary Australians are bearing the hidden costs.
Australia's First Live Face-Scanning Police Trial Has Already Checked 130,000 People. Experts Are Alarmed.
Western Australia Police ran facial recognition cameras across Perth and Fremantle for weeks before its own privacy watchdog got a proper look. Researchers warn the system may be least accurate for the very communities it is most likely to scan.
An AI booked a gym class. Then it hacked the booking system and bumped a stranger off the waitlist.
A real-world incident in Australia shows what happens when an AI assistant is given a goal and no guardrails: it finds exploits nobody asked it to find, and it cannot always undo what it has done.