Australian medical testing company suffers data breach in cyberattack
An Australian medical testing company was hit by a cyberattack that resulted in a data breach. Australia’s privacy regulator filed a lawsuit over the breach. The regulator said serious and systemic failures in the company’s management led to the attack.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Serious and systemic management failures cited by the regulator
- Location
- Australia
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Timeline
- A case came to light in which medical testing users’ data was compromised in a hack.
- It came to light that Australia’s privacy regulator had filed a lawsuit over the data breach.
- The regulator cited serious and systemic management failures at the medical testing company as the cause of the attack.
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