The Latest Breaking News from Optus

On October 13 one of Australia’s largest medical insurers, Medibank, announced it had suffered a cyberattack – one which has resulted in the breached personal details of 9.7 million customers in Australia. We now know the hackers, who are almost certainly Russian, demanded a ransom of US$9.7 million (about A$15…

Both NSW and the federal government have moved to change the law so that data breaches can’t be kept secret anymore.

Queenslanders will now have to give their licence and card numbers when dealing with banks and telcos, but some have questioned whether the protocol really amounts to a two-factor authentication system.

Unlike other states and territories, NSW government agencies will legally be required to report customer data breaches like cyber attacks, if a new bill is passed through parliament.

Queensland has tightened the rules for using a state driver's licence for identification purposes following the Optus data breach in September.

Some of the stolen data from Medibank customers has been leaked online. Here's what we know so far.

Medibank warns more customer data stolen by hackers, including passport numbers, will be uploaded to the dark web.

Companies could soon face bigger penalties for data breaches, after new laws passed the lower house.

Australians should think twice before handing their personal data over to companies, the ACCC deputy chair says.

In the past financial year, the Australian Cyber Security Centre received 76,000 cyber-crime reports – on average, one every seven minutes. The year before, it was a report every eight minutes. The year before that, every ten minutes.

A NSW teenager has pleaded guilty to trying to blackmail Optus customers affected by its September data breach.