Jeremy Nadel reports:
The investigation will cover whether the law firm violated the Privacy Act by failing to protect sensitive data or properly notifying individuals affected by the breach.
The breach saw 1.1TB of data lost to hackers and impacted 65 government agency clients’ data as well as data belonging to private firms as well.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) made “preliminary inquiries” at the time of the breach last year, but said there was now a need to open a formal investigation into the law firm’s “personal information handling practices”.
Read more at iTnews.
Responsibility for the breach had been claimed by AlphV (BlackCat) in April 2023.