Tag: data security breach

Australian Privacy Commissioner takes expansive view of jurisdiction in Ashley Madison case

Posted onAuthorPatrick Gunning

Many regulators take an expansive view of their remit, and the Australian Privacy Commissioner has acted in this way in the Ashley Madison case. The Ashley Madison data security breach attracted enormous publicity worldwide, when details of approximately 36 million subscribers were published by hacktivists operating under the monicker “The Impact Team”. The company that read more...
Subjects: Privacy

Australian Department of Immigration data breach – another court decision

Posted onAuthorPatrick Gunning

Data security breaches can cause much more than financial harm to affected individuals. In February 2014 the Australian Department of Immigration accidentally disclosed personal information about almost 10,000 asylum seekers. The asylum seekers became concerned that if their request for asylum was denied and they were removed from Australia to their country of origin, they read more...
Subjects: Privacy