A prominent Australian law firm is investigating claims hackers have published data taken from the company on the dark web. HWL Ebsworth, which has clients at either commercial or government level in every state or territory, on June 9 said it had learned of the data release. “Cyber criminals who accessed our systems have now…

A further 14,000 people could be affected by a cyber attack from which hackers released over 16,000 Tasmanian education department documents. On April 7, the state government revealed financial statements and invoices, containing names and addresses of school students and their parents, had been released onto the dark web. The documents were gained through a…