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Australian Rental Apps Accused of Harvesting Tenant Data Beyond Victorian Privacy Laws
A consumer watchdog review found so-called RentTech platforms asking hopeful renters for far more personal information than new Victorian rules allow, raising questions about how easily the protections can be sidestepped.
Cyber attack on Australian book distributor leaves bookshops empty-handed before Christmas
A suspected ransomware attack on Alliance Distribution Services has disrupted book supply across Australia for six weeks, hitting independent bookshops and Hachette authors at the worst possible time.
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.
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.
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.
Brisbane Medical Clinic Took Three Months to Tell Patients Their Emails Were Read by Hackers
GO2 Health notified the regulator in May but did not warn affected patients until July, reviving the debate about whether Australia's 30-day disclosure rules protect the right people.
Australia Plans Strict Rules on AI in Government Decision-Making
Canberra is drawing up binding requirements for how federal agencies use automated decision tools, with fairness, accuracy and transparency at the centre of the framework.
Scammers Are Calling Telstra Customers and Pretending to Help After Last Week's Outage
Criminals are cold-calling Australians and posing as Telstra staff in the days after a national network failure. Here's what happened, what data could be at risk, and what to do if your phone rings.
Australian Health Websites Secretly Fed Patients' Fertility and Medication Searches to Meta and TikTok
Australia's privacy regulator has ruled that Monash IVF and Medmate broke the law by embedding invisible tracking code on their health websites — code that sent sensitive visitor data to social media giants without asking anyone's permission.