breach, despite having the legislative power to do so. Late Friday afternoon they announced "civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court against Australian Clinical Labs Limited (ACL)". On this occasion the "sensitive health information and credit card information of in excess of 100,000 individuals" was exfiltrated and to make matters worse, "ACL failed to carry out a reasonable assessment of whether it amounted to an eligible data breach and then failed to notify the Commissioner as soon as practicable". Nobody will go to jail as it's a civil proceeding, but ACL can only be fined up to $2.2m for this as it happened before the law was updated in December last year to increase the punishment.
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