A national coordinator will deal with large-scale data breaches and cyber hacks in Australia from now on under the Labor government’s plan to counteract cybersecurity problems.
Last year, major Australian organisations were targeted in a series of cyber-attacks—following the Ukraine War—that saw the personal data of millions exposed online, including driver’s licence and Medicare details.
Major companies such as Optus, Medicare, Woolworth’s MyDeal, and the Australian Defence Department were all subject to breaches.
“We arrived in government confronting a real mess with cyber security, so what we saw was different parts of government and the private sector doing important things, but kind of all rowing in different directions,” Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neill told the ABC Radio on Feb. 27….
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