Australia Regulator Tells Medibank to Set Aside $167M After Major Cyber Attack June 27, 2023 By Renju Jose and Sameer Manekar Australia’s banking regulator told insurer Medibank on Tuesday it would have to set aside A$250 million ($167 million) in extra...
New Zealand’s Smartpay Hit With Ransomware in Latest Antipodean Cyber Attack June 16, 2023 New Zealand-based payments solutions provider Smartpay Holdings said on Friday that it faced a ransomware attack last week, becoming the...
Australia Is Inadvertently Inviting Cyber Crimewave, Data Theft Victim Service Warns April 5, 2023 By Byron Kaye An Australian government-backed service for victims of identity theft blasted a plan to toughen privacy laws amid an explosion of...
Regulator Tells Australian Banks to Boost Cyber-Attack Defenses March 28, 2023 By Nabila Ahmed and Carmeli Argana Australia’s financial institutions must improve their resilience to cyberattacks, the head of the nation’s banking regulator said Tuesday. A recent...
Australian Lender Latitude’s Shares Slump After Hack Details Emerge March 22, 2023 By Adam Haigh Latitude Group Holdings Ltd. shares slumped as trading resumed for the Australian personal lender that disclosed details of a hack...
Australia’s Latitude Group and IPH Hit by Cyber Attacks, Continuing Wave of Hacks March 16, 2023 By Mehr Bedi Digital payments firm Latitude Group Holdings and intellectual property services provider IPH Ltd. reported data breaches on Thursday, joining a...
Australia’s Health Care System Prime Target for Cyber Attackers: Minister January 24, 2023 By Ben Westcott Australia’s hospitals and health care system are at a high risk from cyberattackers targeting citizens’ personal data, the home affairs...
TPG Telecom Joins Growing List of Australian Companies Hit by Cyber Attacks December 14, 2022 By Praveen Menon and Byron Kaye Internet services provider TPG Telecom Ltd. became the latest Australian company to fall victim to a high-profile cyberattack, announcing on...
Abortions, Drug Use Exposed in Cyber Attack on Australian Health Insurer Medibank November 14, 2022 By Jamie Tarabay When the Australian health insurer Medibank Private Ltd. was hit with a ransomware attack last month, it provided regular updates...
Medibank Hack Could Cost A$700M for Damages and Fixes November 10, 2022 The data breach at Medibank Private Ltd. could cost the Australian health insurer A$700 million ($450 million) if customers decide...