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Australian Regulator Data Breach 2021: ASIC reports server breached via Accellion vulnerability. File Transfer Applications were downloaded illegally during the breach.
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New Zealand Data Breach, January 2021: New Zealand Reserve Bank urgently responding to ‘illegal data breach’. The bank issued a statement saying a “third party file sharing service” used by the bank to share and store some sensitive information, had been illegally accessed.
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Australian Malware Breach December 2020 – NSW Health, Rio Tinto, Serco named as victims of massive global SolarWinds hack attack. NSW Health appears to have been infected with potentially dangerous Russian malware since June.
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Australian Ransomware Breach December 2020 – Automotive services provider Inchcape Australia appears to have been compromised by the Windows Ransomexx ransomware. Cyber criminals who hit the company leaking some data that they stole, on the dark web.
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New Zealand Ransomware Attack December 2020. NZ financial strategies provider Staircase hit by Windows NetWalker ransomware. The attackers have listed a number of data files on their site on the dark web
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Australian Email Privacy Breach December 2020. BTC Markets exposes customer names, emails in botched blast send. Australia’s largest cryptocurrency exchange apologises for error.
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Western Australian Audit Report November 2020. WA registry system flaws force auditor to delay findings by 18 months. ‘Highly unusual step’ taken to protect foundational system.
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Australian Audit Report November 2020. Major NSW govt agencies still without disaster recovery plans for all systems. Auditor finds at least seven agencies missing plans.
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Australian Netwalker Ransomware Attack November 2020. Australian end-to-end document and digital solutions provider to the legal industry Law In Order says it has suffered a “cyber security incident” and has had to limit access to most of its website as a precaution.
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Australian Zoom Compromise November 2020: Levitas Capital closing after fake Zoom invite sinks $16m super fund investment. A fake Zoom invite has forced a Sydney hedge fund to close up shop after cybercriminals found a way into their emails in September
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Australian Privacy Breach November 2020. Bugged lawyers’ conversations available to Victorian police thanks to ‘IT error’. The massive breach of the rights to confidentiality and legal professional privilege has potentially contaminated an unknown number of criminal cases and convictions.
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Australian Workers Data Exposed October 2020. Orchard Tech a Melbourne company recruiting horticultural workers exposed sensitive personal data. AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) instance containing thousands of sensitive personal documents left open for anyone to access for over a month.
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Australian Service Provider Hacked? October 2020: Nitro Software user database put up for sale on dark web. A group that uses the name Shiny Hunters appears to have put up a database exfiltrated during a data breach of ASX-listed Nitro Software, a firm that offers a service to create, edit and sign PDFs and digital documents, on the dark web for sale.
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Australian Government Privacy Breach Again October 2020: DFAT Stranded Aussies’ identities exposed again. The identities of Australians stranded overseas have been accidentally exposed for the third time in as many months.
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Australian Privacy Breach October 2020: City of Port Phillip Council has apologised for accidentally sharing personal information identifying people who reported graffiti on a public government website. The data is open to the public so council is unable to say who has accessed it.
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Australian Ransomware Attack October 2020. Australian media monitoring provider Isentia ransomware attack expected to cost at least $7 million. Australian Cyber Security Centre is assisting Isentia, which has ‘most government departments and large corporations’ as clients.
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Australian Database Hacked October 2020. Overseas hackers break into Sydney’s north shore Mosman Council salary database. A “small amount of money” was siphoned in the incident.
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Australian Data Breach October 19 2020: WA energy retailer and supplier Kleenheat customer names and addresses exposed in system breach, believes the breach occurred in 2014 on a third-party system.
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Australian Ransomware Attack October 2020: Spotless Group, the Downer-owned facilities services provider, is the latest high-profile Australian company to fall victim to ransomware attackers. Confirms a ‘number’ of servers ‘accessed’.
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Cyber Quotes and Wisdom: Michael McCormack “Never been a breach, the ABS assures us that this won’t happen into the future with this Census”
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Cyber Quotes and Wisdom: Michael McCormack "Never been a breach, the ABS assures us that this won’t happen into the future with this Census"
