The privacy report into the hacking of the Ashley Madison
website marketed to people seeking an affair serves as a useful
reminder for Australian businesses.
On 22 August 2016, the Australian Information Commissioner and
the Privacy Commissioner of Canada published a joint report into
the online data breach that occurred as a result of the successful
hacking of the Ashley Madison dating website.
The breach enabled the hackers to obtain access to the personal
information associated with approximately 36 million Ashley Madison
user accounts, including disclosure of sensitive information
regarding users' practices, proclivities and fantasies.
The report into Ashley Madison's privacy practices and the
effectiveness of its information handling procedures at the time of
the breach serves as a useful reminder to organisations of their
obligations under the Australian Privacy Principles
(APPs).
