Updated 4 April 2017.

In recent times, high profile data breaches such as the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal, which saw the names of up to 900,000 Australian users published online, have shown the type of detriment that can be caused when personal information is compromised by a data breach.  Even icons of the Australian retail sector such as Kmart and David Jones have had customer data lost to hackers in 2015.  One year prior, Optus reported three (3) separate data breaches, with the security of the personal information of over 300,000 of its customers being compromised.  These are just a few instances which highlight the magnitude of the issue in Australia. [Read more…]