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Harriet Alexander

Harriet Alexander

Harriet Alexander is an investigative reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.

American Express has been ordered to put time stamps showing when employees access customers’ accounts in five systems

American Express ordered to fix security gaps after customer was spied on

After a four-year battle, a customer who blew the whistle has been vindicated, but the full details of the case remain secret.

  • Harriet Alexander and Julie Lewis

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Amex is embroiled in a privacy scandal.

Far-reaching gag order means we will never know how bad security is at AMEX

The privacy commissioner formed a preliminary opinion that American Express was not protecting its customers from insider threats to their security. Then the credit card company’s lawyers got to work.

  • Harriet Alexander and Julie Lewis
West HQ chief executive Richard Errington.

The crusading club boss and his $1.7m side hustle

The gaming regulator is examining a Rooty Hill club’s decision to outsource a scoping study to its own CEO.

  • Harriet Alexander and Nigel Gladstone
Western Sydney University campus, Parramatta.

‘Odd choices of words’: How an academic’s AI use was exposed by her peers

Western Sydney University has acknowledged that the opinion piece, published by this masthead, was AI-generated using the author’s previous work.

  • Harriet Alexander and Sally Rawsthorne
Bowlers Terry Wright (left), Joanne Livingstone (centre) and local Asren Pugh want their club re-opened under community control.

‘They’re laughing at us’: How a community lost its beloved bowlo

Norths Leagues Club promised to fix the Bangalow Bowlo’s dilapidated clubhouse when they went into partnership. Now it’s using the state of the clubhouse to justify its decision to close the club.

  • Harriet Alexander
Patrons gamble on the poker machines at Bankstown Sports Club.

Second mega-club in firing line over dirty cash claims

The state’s top two most profitable clubs by gambling revenue are believed to have allowed organised criminals to use their poker machines to launder money.

  • Harriet Alexander
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Graham Richardson, pictured also with his daughter Kate, at the NSW Labor conference in 1994.

Graham Richardson’s final vanishing act: A penniless estate

His daughter has spoken about the Labor kingmaker’s fractured family and how the only remaining assets in his estate included a Lexus and two mysterious wedding rings.

  • Harriet Alexander
AUSTRAC chief executive Brendan Thomas said criminals were still moving “extraordinary volumes of cash” across venues in a way that was highly indicative of laundering.

Safe sticker company at the centre of money-laundering scandal

Daniel Symond was once the clubs’ most trusted adviser. But a blockbuster prosecution has raised questions about what exactly he knew.

  • Harriet Alexander and Bevan Shields
Rebel Wilson, Sue Chrysanthou and Charlotte MacInnes.

Rebel without a pause: The ‘truth teller’ and the celebrity silk duel

Subplots abound in the real-life drama of Rebel Wilson.

  • Harriet Alexander
A number of other hospitals are on the block, including the Prince of Wales hospital in Sydney.

Nurse seriously injured in patient’s Sydney hospital rampage

The 51-year-old man is alleged to have attacked six people, including three nurses, at Prince of Wales Hospital on Saturday night.

  • Harriet Alexander