Leonard Bernardone

Australian GPS and driver licence data has been offered up for sale in an alleged data breach targeting fleet management and GPS tracking provider Teletrac Navman. The alleged data leak appeared on a hacking forum in early July, when a user named ‘laserscript’ claimed to have compromised “continuous real-time GPS tracking data” for 2,988 companies across Australian and New Zealand.

Attendees of Melbourne’s most popular film festival will no longer need to provide a postal address when buying tickets after a recent data breach motivated the company to reduce its data collection practices. Data breach responses tend to follow a predictable playbook: contain the incident, announce what was leaked, and secure your systems to mitigate the chances of a similar breach happening again.

The US Department of Commerce has reversed a controversial export ban on AI giant Anthropic’s frontier models Claude Fable and the more cybersecurity-focused Claude Mythos – though Australian agencies have not regained accessed to the latter. In mid-June, the Trump administration mandated that Anthropic restrict non-Americans from using Fable and the unreleased Mythos, including those residing in the US.