Cyber Attack Takes Down Australia’s Peak Body In Charge of Privacy Breaches

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An Australian governmental body in charge of monitoring privacy breaches has fallen victim to a cyber attack following the hacking of one of the agency’s law firms.

Data from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) was stolen by Russian cybercriminal BlackCat, also known as AlphV, after the hacking group infiltrated the database of HWL Ebsworth.