Web Scraping – Is It Legal and Can It Be Prevented?

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Web scraping is a sensitive issue. Should a third party be allowed to visit a website and use automated tools to gather and store information at scale from that website? What if that information includes personal data? What does the law say? Can it be prevented? This is what we’ll discuss.

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Medibank Confirms Data Breach Impacts 9.7 Million Customers

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Australian health insurer Medibank today confirmed that the data of 9.7 million customers was compromised in a recent cyberattack.

The incident was identified on October 12, before threat actors could deploy file-encrypting ransomware, but not before they stole data from the company’s systems.

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