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Generation Life reports cyber attack

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2026
... directly by Generation Life at the conclusion of that process," GDG said. APRA, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and National Office of Cyber Security (NOCS) have been notified of the ...

Mercer Super, Virgin Money Super members caught in Australia Post burglaries

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... externally or sold as a result of the incident. Mercer Super has also reported the incident to the Australian Information Commissioner and APRA. "Australia Post has advised that they have implemented a range of additional security measures following ...

Criminal attacks, human error drive data breaches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
The number of data breaches reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) rose 25% in 2024; 54 or 9% of which occurred at financial services organisations. New statistics from the OAIC show there was a total of 1113 notifications ...

WTW adds cybersecurity consultant

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2022
... that can provide real value to clients." The expanding of the team comes as the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner said it received 464 data breach notification in the second half of 2021, with many committed against major organisations. ...

Malicious attacks most common in finance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... data breaches last year, beat out only by the health sector, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). The Notifiable Data Breaches Report found the finance sector accounted for 15% of all reported data breached in the ...

AustralianSuper breached member's privacy: Regulator

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... complaint to a federal regulator found the fund interfered with their privacy. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) on December 16 delivered a judgement on a complaint that an AustralianSuper member filed over three and a half ...

Open Banking gets another shot in parliament

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... technical standards." The ACCC will regulate the Consumer Data Right along with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner with a new Data Standards Body which will develop transfer and security standards.

Willis Towers Watson adds cyber specialist

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... has previously presented at the AusCERT National IT Security Conference, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner's Asia Pacific Forum and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. In a LinkedIn post, Di Marco said he was looking forward ...

AustralianSuper members exposed to security breach

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2019
... the fund has reported this account activity to the Privacy Commissioner at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)." The super fund declined to further comment on how the breach was detected and if a specific member group was affected. ...

Train staff on privacy risks: OAIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has called for staff training on how to identify and prevent privacy risks, as financial services recorded the second highest number of data breaches in the third quarter of 2018. In its report of ...
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