Australian Media Ransomware Attack,
27 February 2022

Sky News employees caught in cyber breach

Info accessed included full names, dwelling and e mail addresses, phone numbers, dates of beginning, tax file numbers, salaries, payroll IDs and superannuation fund particulars.

Source: Sky News employees caught in cyber breach | SHM

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Foxtel’s cable information channel Sky Information Australia has develop into the most recent media firm to endure a cybersecurity incident, with private identification particulars of employees stolen following a serious hack of a third-party supplier.

Staff at the Rupert Murdoch-owned news channel were told that their personal information may have been caught in the cybersecurity breach at payroll provider Frontier Software late last year.

Sky News said the details could include full names and bank account numbers. Sky News no longer uses Frontier as its payroll provider.

Frontier initially advised 9 Radio, which runs 2GB, 3AW and 4BC, that no private info of its workers had been launched, however modified its view after additional evaluation. The info accessed included full names, dwelling and e mail addresses, phone numbers, dates of beginning, tax file numbers, salaries, payroll IDs and superannuation fund particulars.