Brydens Lawyers secures injunction following cyber incident

Sydney firm Brydens Lawyers has obtained a court order banning “dissemination of the impacted confidential...

26 March 2025

By Jerome Doraisamy

Enforcement, compliance among concerns with proposed social media ban

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has recently announced a “world-leading” social media ban for teenagers under 16...

22 November 2024

By Naomi Neilson

Court filing reveals how Medibank data breach unfolded

A court filing by the Australian Information Commissioner revealed how a hacker accessed the data of 9.7 million...

19 June 2024

By Naomi Neilson

Medibank hit with OAIC lawsuit over data breach

Medibank has found itself in the Federal Court after the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) filed...

06 June 2024

By Naomi Neilson

Ransomware gang claims it hacked Sydney law firm

Hackers alleged they have client documents and court details belonging to a Sydney law firm, but its principal said...

30 May 2024

By Naomi Neilson

Optus fails to keep report into cyber attack out of class action

The Federal Court has dismissed Optus’ appeal to hold back a Deloitte report into its 2022 cyber attack from class...

28 May 2024

By Naomi Neilson

Western Sydney University discloses data breach, 7,500 ‘impacted individuals’ notified

Western Sydney University (WSU) has revealed that its systems were breached by a threat actor, leading to student...

27 May 2024

By Lauren Croft

Optus hit with lawsuit for 2022 cyber attack

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has filed a lawsuit against Optus, alleging that it failed to...

24 May 2024

By Naomi Neilson

Securing legal professional privilege after a cyber breach

Last year, Optus failed to keep a Deloitte report into a major data breach away from a class action applicant. Here, an...

22 May 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

Medibank fights to keep privilege over data hack report

To scrap legal professional privilege from the Deloitte report, lawyers behind the Medibank class action have grilled...

21 May 2024

By Naomi Neilson

Lawyers frustrated with delay of OAIC investigation into Latitude hack

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and its New Zealand counterpart are yet to release any...

15 May 2024

By Naomi Neilson

Finalists for Cyber Security Lawyer of the Year unveiled

Lawyers Weekly’s sister brand, Cyber Daily, is pleased to reveal that over 160 finalists have been selected to...

03 May 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

ChatGPT’s current iteration is almost twice as persuasive as the average human being

While people are getting better at identifying the difference between human content and that generated by artificial...

08 April 2024

By Naomi Neilson

Australian digital ID bill finally passes the Senate

Three years after its first draft, a highly amended version of a digital ID bill passed with support from Greens,...

05 April 2024

By Lauren Croft

Elon Musk sues OpenAI for breach of foundational contract

Tesla and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has initiated a lawsuit against AI giant and ChatGPT creator OpenAI,...

05 March 2024

By Lauren Croft

Medibank hacker to be sanctioned under new cyber laws

The federal government has revealed that a Russian citizen is behind the nearly 10-million-person hack and will face...

23 January 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

Victorian court breach much worse than first thought

Court Services Victoria has revealed that the cyber attack it suffered last year was much more substantial than first...

23 January 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

Lawyers top list of professions most concerned about AI

The AI revolution is here, and it’s here to stay. Despite many being of the belief that AI tools will only make our...

19 January 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

Complete list of government agencies affected by HWL Ebsworth hack revealed

The full list of government agencies affected by the cyber attack on BigLaw firm HWL Ebsworth has been released by the...

17 January 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

PwC security questioned as its head of risk fooled by fake email

Big four accounting firm PwC has launched an investigation after a fake email duped the company’s head of risk and...

05 December 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy