I feel like privacy is dead: IVF data breach triggers interest in class action lawsuit

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The data breach at Genea Fertility included patient's medical histories, diagnoses and treatments, medications and prescriptions, as well as pathology and diagnostic test results. Now, hundreds of Australians have shown interest in a class action lawsuit over the breach, which could be the first test of new reforms to Australia's Privacy Act.


The exposed data includes those clients' medical histories, diagnoses and treatments, medications and prescriptions, as well as pathology and diagnostic test results.

Along with hundreds of others, Ms Lewis contacted law firm Phi Finney McDonald, which is looking into what it describes as "potential redress" for those impacted by the breach.

Lewis hopes a class action could lead to penalties for Genea, and encourage other I-V-F clinics to improve their data security.


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