How an Australian cybersecurity firm helped decipher Zhenhua Data leak

Canberra company recovered vast trove of information from corrupted China files

When a group of international media organisations this week revealed details of a Chinese tech company’s vast database profiling millions of people around the globe, it was in no small part due to a small Australian cybersecurity firm established only last year.

The Canberra-based firm, Internet 2.0, was co-founded by the cybersecurity expert Robert Potter, who was an adviser to the then Labor MP Gai Brodtmann when she was the shadow assistant minister for cybersecurity in Bill Shorten’s opposition. He later took a role with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as a contractor.

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