Cybersecurity
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Latitude Financial
Latitude reveals hit from cyberattack, warns bad debts rising
The consumer finance business has taken a heavy hit from the cyberattack which exposed personal details of 7.9 million customers sourced from retailers such as Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, Coles and Apple.
- by Clancy Yeates
Latest
Optus customer growth stunted by cyberattack
The telco’s chief executive says the company has returned to net positive customer growth since December, but momentum remains slower than before the breach.
- by Millie Muroi
Australia, Five Eyes partners blame China for malicious hacking campaign
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said the government was “not going to be shy” about calling out state-sponsored hacking campaigns.
- by Matthew Knott
Editorial
Sex & relationships
Australia, it’s time to debate age verification for porn
The innocence of many childhoods has been prematurely ended by pornography’s pervasive online accessibility.
- The Herald's View
Latitude hack triggers landmark privacy investigation
The Australian and New Zealand privacy commissioners have announced a joint investigation into the hack of Latitude Financial, which exposed the details of millions of consumer finance customers.
- by Colin Kruger
New privacy enforcer to deal with data breach fallout
The government will appoint a new federal privacy commissioner to pursue companies over major breaches of their consumers’ trust.
- by Nick Bonyhady
Analysis
Scams
‘Whack-a-mole’: NAB’s 38 per cent increase in scam attempts
Millions of Australians became more vulnerable to scams in 2022 following a spate of large-scale, high-profile data breaches.
- by John Collett
Exclusive
Human rights
Amnesty International slow with disclosure after December hack
The human rights organisation’s Australian branch said attackers stole low-risk information in December, and it was not required to disclose the attack.
- by Nick Bonyhady
Agents, influence and interference: The new age of espionage is here
Foreign interference and espionage is the defining generational task of security agencies today, just as counterterrorism was after the September 11 attacks.
- by Matthew Knott
Updated
Courts
Class action lawsuit launched against Optus after devastating hack
Optus faces a class action lawsuit from more than 100,000 of its current and former customers after a cyberattack exposed the personal details of millions of Australians last year.
- by Lachlan Abbott and Nick Bonyhady
Medibank hack victims’ compensation in limbo due to unexpected hurdle
Attempts to get compensation for nearly 10 million victims of the Medibank Private hack have hit an unexpected hurdle.
- by Colin Kruger