If investigators find a breach of Australian privacy law, they can seek civil penalties of up to $1.4 million per contravention

China regards other countries "as either potential adversaries or potential client states, to be threatened, bribed or coerced,” GCHQ head Jeremy Fleming said.

Chinese officials clearly disapproved of Starlink's rollout in Ukraine and 'sought assurances' that Musk would not sell access to the internet service in China, report said

Singtel unit Dialog said it realised a small sample of its data, including some employee personal information, had been published on the dark web

Binance said on Friday coins worth at least $100 million were taken in a hack that targeted a bridge between two Binance systems.

Ministers condemn Optus, owned by SingTel, for breach that affected 10 million accounts, urges company to speed up notification to customers whose personal data was released

Australian minister says Optus should replace passports for victims of a massive data breach, which the government blames on the phone company's "cybersecurity failures"

Meta said it disrupted a China-based influence operation using Facebook and Instagram accounts with political content aimed at users in the US ahead of the midterm elections

The proposal comes as pressure mounts on ByteDance over TikTok's 'excessive' harvesting of users' data, which could be shared with Chinese authorities.

ByteDance has so far resisted US demands to divest TikTok, with the details of the new data security deal still being hammered out

Only 19 per cent of applications were approved, with Chinese citizens prohibited from participating in leading blockchains overseas

Chinese surveillance technologies and tactics are being rolled out in more than 50 countries, including facial recognition CCTV and social media bans, The Straits Times said