Australian Clinical Labs

Status Tracked

The first company ordered to pay a civil penalty under the Privacy Act: $5.8 million on 8 October 2025 over a 2022 breach, including $1.6 million for failing to assess and notify. It admitted the contraventions and consented to the orders. Up to 24 September 2026 we have found no other.

First tracked: 2026
Last on record: 2026-10-08
Named in: 4 articles
Across: 2 cases

Named in 4 articles across 2 cases 23 connections: companies 10, mechanisms 1, regulators and bodies 5, agencies and departments 4, police 2, people 1

Key figure on file

$5.8 million

The civil penalty the Federal Court ordered against Australian Clinical Labs on 8 October 2025, the first, and up to 24 September 2026 the only, civi…

Articles naming it

Cases it recurs across

Linked in the graph

Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Privacy Rort$5.8 millionThe civil penalty the Federal Court ordered against Australian Clinical Labs on 8 October 2025, the first, and up to 24 September 2026 the only, ci…3 articles →The Reporting Rort$5.8 millionAustralian Clinical Labs, ordered 8 October 2025 to pay $5.8 million over a February 2022 breach, of which $1.6 million ($800,000 and $800,000) was…1 article →

Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑10‑08Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

$5.8 millionThe civil penalty the Federal Court ordered against Australian Clinical Labs on 8 October 2025, the first, and up to 24 September 2026 the only, civil penalty order this outlet could find ever made under the Privacy Act, ordered by consent.One penalty →
$5.8 millionAustralian Clinical Labs, ordered 8 October 2025 to pay $5.8 million over a February 2022 breach, of which $1.6 million ($800,000 and $800,000) was for failing to assess the breach promptly and failing to notify the OAIC. ACL admitted the contraventions and consented to the orders. It is the first civil penalty ever ordered under the Privacy Act [14].Source: OAIC, 9 October 2025Fourteen days →

Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑10‑08Auto-assembled

How we know

The sources of the 4 articles that name Australian Clinical Labs, by the tier the desk declared. A source supports its article, not necessarily a claim about Australian Clinical Labs.

Evidence strength · 97 sources across 4 articles

Primary 61
Official 4
Masthead 11
Trade 11
10 not yet graded

Primary: the document itself: legislation, a court record, a filing, a regulator’s own publication
Official: the organisation’s own statement about itself
Masthead: a news organisation with a corrections policy, reporting the primary document
Trade: specialist or trade press

How sources are graded

4 of 4 articles are graded on every headline finding. How findings are graded

Fig. 03 / Named together

The 12 names most often in the same articles as Australian Clinical Labs. A line's weight, and the number by each name, is how many articles name both. Grey chords join the neighbours most often named together themselves (two articles or more). Circles are people and organisations, squares are mechanisms. Named together is all this shows: it is not a finding about what the relationship is.

Fig. 03Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑10‑08Auto-assembled