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Singapore's government health database has been breached by attackers who have stolen the personal information of about 1.5 million people, with the data of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Long specifically targeted, the country's Ministry of Health has announced.

Two insurance companies have sued a data security firm seeking the return of US$30 million that they paid out to a payment processing company over a data breach.

The Australian Republic Movement and Britain's Liberal Democrat Party have become victims of the breach at Barcelona-based online survey and form building service Typeform.

Big Australian companies — more than 500 employees — that suffer a breach can incur economic losses of up to $35.9 million, a study done for Microsoft by Frost & Sullivan claims.

The Tasmanian Electoral Commission (TEC) says that voter data such as names, addresses, email addresses and dates of birth may have leaked through a data breach suffered by Barcelona-based online survey and form building service Typeform.

Australia's biggest online doctor appointment booking service, HealthEngine, has reported a data breach, saying that personally identifiable information of some users may have been accessed through the company's online Practice Recognition System.

Well-known British security researcher Kevin Beaumont says the breach of the British operations of American multinational ticket sales and distribution company Ticketmaster, that has led to the possible leak of tens of thousands of credit card details, was caused by the incorrect placement of a single line of code.

American multinational ticket sales and distribution company Ticketmaster has warned Australian customers that they, too, could be at risk of having their credit card details leaked after the discovery of malware at the company's British operations.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has advised that it will not be using the recruitment software services provided by PageUp People until issues around the data breach suffered by the company are sorted.

Supermarket group ALDI has become the latest Australian business to suspend the use of its online recruitment system following the data breach at the human resources outfit PageUp People.

Human resources outfit PageUp People, which had claimed after it was hit by a massive data breach that user authentication data had been encrypted, has now changed its tune and says that passwords set up before 2007 were stored in clear text.

Monash University has disabled its systems that use human resources outfit PageUp People to manage recruitment and other human resource activities after last week's breach announcement and has not reinstated it.

The data breach at human resources outfit PageUp People has resulted in the leaking of names, street addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers among others, the company has said in an update on Tuesday.

HR company PageUp People has suffered a huge data breach due to a malware infection and could have leaked details of personnel from a number of companies which are its clients: the Commonwealth Bank. the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Telstra, NAB, Coles, Aldi, Medibank, Australia Post, Target, Reserve Bank of Australia, Officeworks, Kmart, Linfox, AMP, Asahi, Sony, Newcrest, the University of Tasmania and Lindt.

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The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner says it has made "further inquiries" into the loss of millions of customer records by the Commonwealth Bank but did not say why it had decided, along with the CBA, to not inform customers or any government functionaries about the loss of data.

Australia's first data breach since the country introduced a data breach notification law has been recorded, with the Danish shipping company Svitzer suffering a breach that affected about half of its 1000 employees.

A former chief information officer at American credit information provider Equifax has been charged with insider trading before the company revealed in September last year that it had suffered a massive data breach.

Security firm UpGuard is remaining silent about the removal of a blog post from its website wherein it was claimed that a cloud-based data storage repository, used by business analytics software provider Birst, was left unsecured, resulting in data about financial services firm Capital One, among others, being exposed.

American credit information provider Equifax has identified another 2.4 million customers affected by a data breach it first disclosed in September last year.