Incident: ‘Trusted inside access’: Sydney IT contractor arrested over Landmark White data breach | Brisbane Times
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: October 02 2019
‘Trusted inside access’: Sydney IT contractor arrested over Landmark White data breach
Property valuations, personal details and driver’s licences of a combined 275,000 individuals were made “readily available on the dark web” by a trusted contractor of a leading property valuation firm.
Source: Sydney IT contractor arrested over Landmark White data breach | Brisbane Times
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Mr Grant, 49, was arrested in the Sydney CBD over allegations he gained unauthorised access to Landmark White’s (a property firm) database and documents, handling data that he uploaded to file-sharing site Scribd and the dark web.
The alleged fraud, involving at least two data breaches of 170,000 datasets this year, is estimated to have cost LMW at least $8 million.
In a statement LMW chief executive Timothy Rabbitt said Mr Grant’s arrest was “vindication of LMW’s stance that this was a serious crime committed against the company.”
LMW chairman Keith Perrett said the firm has “gone through a significant transformation and we are now ahead of the pack in IT security.”
