Year: 2019

Incident: Thousands of Optus mobile numbers mistakenly published in White Pages | Brisbane Times

Posted by Steven Kirby | Oct 25, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Brisbane Times, Data Handling, Privacy Breach, Telcommunications and Internet Service Provider | 0 |

Australian Privacy Breach Incident October 2019: Tens of thousands of Australian Optus customers have had their mobile phone numbers and addresses mistakenly published online.

Incident: 7-Eleven fuel app data breach exposes users’ personal details | The Guardian

Posted by Steven Kirby | Oct 25, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, DDoS Distributed Denial of Service, Mobile App, Privacy Breach, Retail, The Guardian | 0 |

Australian App Privacy Breach October 2019: 7-Eleven fuel app data breach exposes users’ personal details, users were able to see other customers’ data, including names, dates of birth and mobile numbers.

Incident: Cyber scare shuts down hospital IT systems in rural north-east Victoria | Brisbane Times

Posted by Steven Kirby | Oct 23, 2019 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Brisbane Times, Malware, Medical and Health Care, State Government, Victoria, Virus Incident | 0 |

Australian Virus/Malware Incident October 2019: Australian Virus/Malware Incident October 2019: A number of rural Victorian health services in the state’s north-east were forced to shut down their IT systems due to a malware virus.

Incident: Doctor, patient details allegedly stolen in CSL Behring Australia espionage scandal | SMH

Posted by Steven Kirby | Oct 18, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Breach, Human Resources, Insider Threat, Medical and Health Care, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald | 0 |

Australian Former Employee Data Breach 18 October 2019: CSL Behring has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, claiming he stole sensitive information with the intention of passing it on to his new company Pharming.

Incident: ‘Lesson learnt’: Shane Watson caught in embarrassing X-rated photo hack | Yahoo Sports

Posted by Steven Kirby | Oct 16, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Hacked, Social Media, Social Media Incident, Sporting and Recreation, Yahoo7 News | 0 |

Australia Social Media Hack October 2019: Australian Cricketer Shane Watson has apologised to his social media followers after inadvertently posting a number of X-Rated photos after his Twitter and Instagram accounts were hacked.

NZ Incident: Tū Ora Compass Health data breach exposes medical data of one million people | ZDNet

Posted by Steven Kirby | Oct 8, 2019 | 🥝 NZ Incidents, Medical and Health Care, New Zealand, Privacy Breach, ZDNet | 0 |

NZ Medical Data Breach 8 October 2019. New Zealand’s Tū Ora Compass Health data breach exposes medical data of one million New Zealand residents.

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Year: 2019

Incident: Thousands of Optus mobile numbers mistakenly published in White Pages | Brisbane Times

Incident: 7-Eleven fuel app data breach exposes users’ personal details | The Guardian

Incident: Cyber scare shuts down hospital IT systems in rural north-east Victoria | Brisbane Times

Incident: Doctor, patient details allegedly stolen in CSL Behring Australia espionage scandal | SMH

NZ Incident: Tū Ora Compass Health data breach exposes medical data of one million people | ZDNet

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