Cybersecurity Notifiable Data Breaches Act 2017 | Get Fact Up #77

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FEDERAL LEGISLATION UPDATE TO THE PRIVACY ACT

There has been a Australian Pricacy Act update and it's important you know what you have to do in the event you have a breach of your data which effects your customers.

Examples of a data breach include when:

• a device containing customers’ personal information is lost or stolen;
• a database containing personal information is hacked; and
• personal information is mistakenly provided to the wrong person.

Here is a link the PDF which outlines the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2017