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Incident: Hack spam sent via Australian hazard alert service | iTnews

Incident: Hack spam sent via Australian hazard alert service | iTnews

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: January 07 2019

Early Warning Network, a NSW company providing weather, fire and other alerts to councils and others, had a login compromised and used by an unknown party to make threats about customer security.

Users reported receiving a spam text message on Saturday that read, “EWN has been hacked. Your personal data is not safe. Trying to fix the security issues”.

Source: Hack spam sent via Australian hazard alert service

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