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The Home Affairs Minister has emerged from a meeting with a group of Sydney mayors saying there has been a lot of misinformation about ISIS-linked returnees.

Six refugees have been flown from Nauru to New Zealand as part of a resettlement deal with Australia, Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil has confirmed.

The Australian government is launching an offensive against cybercriminals, following a data breach that has exposed millions of people’s personal information.

Millions of people having their personal lives exposed in hacks of Optus and Medibank will drive “permanent change” in cyber crime.

Hackers behind the Medibank cyber attack have released more sensitive customer data, this time relating to mental health treatment. The file was posted on

Group releases file containing hundreds of customer claims as government considers banning ransom payments for cybercrime

Russian hackers have released more sensitive information and are threatening more is to come, as Medibank faces potential legal action over the hack.

When the Australian health insurer Medibank Private Ltd was hit with a ransomware attack last month, it provided regular updates to its customers, including the revelation that personal information from nearly 10 million of them was exposed. It also followed the government’s guidance on how to respond to the extortion…

Some of the potential reforms include making it illegal to pay ransoms to hackers like those who posted highly sensitive customer data from Medibank on the dark web.