Data Security

Origin Energy is investigating a potential data breach affecting up to 4.8 million customer accounts, after a hacker calling themselves “John Doe” claimed to hold records for two million Australians and issued a 14-day extortion deadline. Here's what the response so far reveals about incident response governance under Australia's Notifiable Data Breaches scheme.

The deeper lesson is that cyber risk maturity must be embedded into normal strategic, operational, supplier and technology assessments.