Cyber crime the modern equivalent of the old bank robbery but with more victims

Data security is a hot topic of interest at present, with the Optus hack making national headlines.

HOT on the heels of the nationally high-profile data breach at telco Optus comes confirmation that a Hunter Region disability provider, Lifestyle Solutions, has also had its systems compromised by an apparently unknown assailant.

Lifestyle Solutions has defended its actions in the wake of the incident, but questions remain about the time it took the organisation to alert those whose details were understood to have been included in the hack of its data base.