Charmian Aw, Melissa B. Levine, and Ciara O’Leary of Hogan Lovells write: On 9 October 2025 the Federal Court of Australia (the Court) imposed an AU$5.8 million civil penalty on Australian Clinical Labs Limited, one of Australia’s largest private hospital pathology service providers (the Company), for systemic failures that led to the unauthorised access to…
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Legal Aid Agency chief admits difficulties understanding impact of cyberattack
Jim Dunton reports: The chief executive of the Legal Aid Agency has told MPs that the organisation is still working out the extent of a cyberattack that was uncovered back in the spring. Jane Harbottle told members of parliament’s Public Accounts Committee that a team of analysts is still exploring how much of the compromised…
Snowflake Loses Two More Bids to Dismiss Data Breach Plaintiffs
Cloud company Snowflake’s data breach litigation woes got worse as two bids to dismiss education and financial institutional plaintiffs from the case largely failed to convince a federal judge. The Los Angeles Unified School District was just one of the at least 165 companies and organizations which had their data stolen because cybercriminals hacked into…
US company with access to biggest telecom firms uncovers breach by nation-state hackers
A.J. Vicens reports: Hackers working for an unnamed nation-state breached networks at Ribbon Communications, a key U.S. telecommunications services company, and remained within the firm’s systems for nearly a year without being detected, a company spokesperson confirmed in a statement on Wednesday. Ribbon Communications, a Texas-based company that provides technology to facilitate voice and data…
Canada says hacktivists breached water and energy facilities
Bill Toulas reports: The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warned today that hacktivists have breached critical infrastructure systems multiple times across the country, allowing them to modify industrial controls that could have led to dangerous conditions. The authorities issued the warning to raise awareness of the elevated malicious activity targeting internet-exposed Industrial Control Systems (ICS)…
How a hacking gang held Italy’s political elites to ransom
Antoneta Roussi and Hannah Roberts report: Nothing about the sand-colored façade of the palazzo tucked behind Milan’s Duomo cathedral suggested that inside it a team of computer engineers were building a database to gather private and damaging information about Italy’s political elite — and use it to try to control them. The platform, called Beyond,…