In a market where there is chronic shortage of rental properties, data security has become an issue for renters, who say they have no choice when asked to provide extensive personal information. Recent data breaches have raised concerns about the over collection of...
Global data breachs
The advent of digital transformation has seen businesses and individuals rely more on technology to store and manage sensitive data. This has increased the amount of data that is available for hackers to target. Data breaches have become a persistent threat to...
The Medibank data breach and its consequences
In November 2022, major Australian health insurer, Medibank, reported a cyber-attack in which a ransomware group gained access to the data of millions of customers by using the stolen credentials of a user with high privileges. The Medibank data breach has affected...
The fallout from Optus data breach
On September 22, 2022, Optus, an Australia telecommunications provider, was hacked with the sensitive data of 9.8 million customers extracted. The company initially claimed that sophisticated hacking was to blame for the breach. Later, it was reported that the threat...