No indication of the affect on customer data. Technology company Garmin was the victim of a cyber-attack that encrypted some of its systems on July 23, 2020. As a result, many of its online services were interrupted including website functions, customer support, customer facing applications, and company communications. “We immediately…
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Telco breaches 50,000 customers’ privacy Australian law firm, Maurice Blackburn has brought a class action suit against SingTel Optus to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, for a breach of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). The complaint concerns the mistaken disclosure of customer data by Optus. In October 2019,…
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The Australian Information Commissioner (AIC) has been given by the Australian Federal Court to serve legal documents to US-Facebook and Facebook Ireland. According to the “Federal Court the material demonstrates a genuine argument about contravention, sufficient to justify causing the respondents to be subject to the litigation in Australia where…
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