Author: Phoenix Nguyen

In years gone by, the more brazen of criminals dreamt-up imaginative and resourceful ways to rob a bank, a train or the corner jewellery store. These days, rather than diamonds and gold bullion, its information that’s most highly prized, and it’s a laptop rather than the barrel of a gun that’s getting the job done. In the era of the ‘hacker,’ these sorts of crimes are occurring more and more frequently. Just recently, the personal information of 9.7m Australians was stolen from the country’s largest health insurer – making it the country’s worst data breach. Whilst the above is obviously…