A Senate estimates hearing has heard that nearly 70 current and former AFP members were affected by the HWL Ebsworth data breach, with 16 of those personnel suffering notifiable breaches.
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on Lawyers Weekly’s sister brand, Cyber Daily.
Fallout from the HWL Ebsworth has resulted in 16 current and former Australian Federal Police (AFP) personnel being the most at risk.
Responding to questioning by Senator and shadow cyber security minister James Paterson (pictured), AFP chief operating officer Charlotte Tressler revealed that a total of 67 current and former AFP members were affected in the breach.
“Overall, 67 current and former AFP appointees were affected. Fifty-one of those weren’t related to what we call a notifiable breach,” she told the legal and constitutional affairs legislation committee early last week.
“That sort of information included things like mobile phone numbers, names, et cetera. We did have 16 current and former members that did have a notifiable breach, and we assessed that there would be a potential risk of serious harm to those appointees.”
While Tressler did not specify the nature of the…
