Landmark civil penalty of AU$5.8 million issued under Australia’s privacy act

On 9 October 2025 the Federal Court of Australia (the Court) imposed an AU$5.8 million civil penalty on Australian Clinical Labs Limited, one of Australia’s largest private hospital pathology service providers (the Company), for systemic failures that led to the unauthorised access to and exfiltration of the sensitive personal information of more than 223,000 individuals….
By: Hogan Lovells