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Incident: Personal details of thousands of residents revealed by Melbourne council in data breach | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Nov 11, 2016 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Data Handling, Email, Local Government, Medical and Health Care, Privacy, Privacy Breach, User Error, Victoria | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: November 11 2016 A local council in...

Incident: ‘Appalling behaviour’: Surf webcams hacked to perv on sunbathing women | Yahoo7

by Steven Kirby | Oct 22, 2016 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Hacked, New South Wales, The Daily Telegraph | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: October 22 2016 A series of beach mounted...

Incident: Dunlop’s Aussie site caught up in CryptXXX ransomware-spreading campaign | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jul 20, 2016 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, iTnews, Ransomware, Vulnerability, Website Compromise | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 20 2016 Dunlop’s site compromised,...

Incident: Police probe real estate cyber attack on Australian real estate digital firm | Herald Sun

by Steven Kirby | Jul 7, 2016 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Denial of Service, Hacked, Real Estate and Property Management, Victoria | 0 |

July 7, 2016. POLICE have launched an investigation into an unprecedented cyber attack against a booming digital real estate firm. The company attacked — Box+Dice — is suggesting it could have been launched by vested interests in the state’s multi-billion dollar housing industry.

Incident: Candidate hit by sexually explicit Facebook hack | The Chronicle

by Steven Kirby | Mar 21, 2016 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Local Government, Politician and Politics, Queensland, Social Media Incident | 0 |

March 21, 2016. Toowoomba Regional Council candidate, Diane Warr was left dumbfounded after a hacker posted sexually explicit photographs on her personal Facebook page.

Incident: Dandenong Plaza website hacked to show a disturbing image of a clown | Dandenong Journal

by Steven Kirby | Mar 7, 2016 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Hacked, Retail, Victoria, Vulnerability, Website Compromise | 0 |

March 7, 2016. HACKERS have replaced the Dandenong Plaza website home page with a disturbing image of a Christmas-themed clown.

Incident: WA parliament breached by undetected virus | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Feb 19, 2016 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Business Continuity, iTnews, State Government, Virus Incident, Western Australia | 0 |

February 19, 2016. A cybersecurity breach that led to a shut down of communications in the West Australian parliament on Tuesday night has been blamed on an undiscovered virus.

Incident: Hackers Attack The NSW Government Department Of Resources And Energy | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Feb 4, 2016 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Cyber Attack Incident, External Penetration Attack, Government Incident, New South Wales, State Government | 0 |

February 4, 2016.. The NSW Government Department of Resources and Energy has revealed that it was the target of a cyber attack in December 2015, during the time several major projects were being considered. This includes the $1.2 billion Shenhua Watermark coal mine, indirectly controlled by the Chinese government — which experts say is a possible source of the attack.

Incident: Australian Federal Police accidentally gave victim’s details to alleged attacker | The Guardian

by Steven Kirby | Jan 19, 2016 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Data Handling, Privacy Breach, The Guardian, Unintended Disclosure Incident | 0 |

Jan 19, 2016. The Australian federal police accidentally revealed the personal details of an assault victim to the alleged perpetrator, risking the safety of the complainant and his family, according to an AFP risk assessment.

Incident: Malware attacks Melbourne Health systems | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jan 19, 2016 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, In the Press, iTnews, Malware, Medical and Health Care, State Government, Victoria | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: January 19 2016 One of Victoria’s largest...

Incident: NSW Medical Council finds out PDF redaction is hard, the hard way | The Register

by Steven Kirby | Jan 17, 2016 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Data Handling, Information Redaction, Medical and Health Care, New South Wales, The Register, Unintended Disclosure Incident, User Error | 0 |

Jan 17, 2016. Australian public sector agencies have a persistent problem trying to redact PDFs: this time, the guilty party is the Medical Council of NSW.

Incident: A Canberra psychology clinic accidentally reveals clients’ personal details in email | The Canberra Times

by Steven Kirby | Jan 15, 2016 | Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Data Handling, Email, Medical and Health Care, Privacy, Privacy Breach, The Canberra Times, Unintended Disclosure Incident, User Error | 0 |

Jan 15, 2016. A Canberra psychology clinic has apologised after it accidentally shared personal details of hundreds of patients in a group email.

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Incident: Thousands of identifiable Northern Territory patient health files sent to overseas-based software vendor in government data breach | ABC News (Australia)
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Incident: Thousands of identifiable Northern Territory patient health files sent to overseas-based software vendor in government data breach | ABC News (Australia)

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Incident: Drug and alcohol tests of graduate paramedics revealed in Ambulance Victoria data breach | The Guardian

Incident: TechnologyOne investigates 'cyber incident' on M365 system | iTnews

Incident: Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre in Westmead Hospital in cyber attack, hackers threatening to release stolen data | ABC News (Australia)

Incident: Australian law firm HWL Ebsworth hit by Russian-linked Blackcat ransomware attack | The Guardian

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Category: Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016

Incident: Personal details of thousands of residents revealed by Melbourne council in data breach | ABC News (Australia)

Incident: ‘Appalling behaviour’: Surf webcams hacked to perv on sunbathing women | Yahoo7

Incident: Dunlop’s Aussie site caught up in CryptXXX ransomware-spreading campaign | iTnews

Incident: Police probe real estate cyber attack on Australian real estate digital firm | Herald Sun

Incident: Dandenong Plaza website hacked to show a disturbing image of a clown | Dandenong Journal

Incident: WA parliament breached by undetected virus | iTnews

Incident: Hackers Attack The NSW Government Department Of Resources And Energy | ABC News (Australia)

Incident: Australian Federal Police accidentally gave victim’s details to alleged attacker | The Guardian

Incident: Malware attacks Melbourne Health systems | iTnews

Incident: NSW Medical Council finds out PDF redaction is hard, the hard way | The Register

Incident: A Canberra psychology clinic accidentally reveals clients’ personal details in email | The Canberra Times

Incident: Australian Hyatt hotels hacked, guest credit card details stolen | Australian Business Traveller

Incident: Vengeful retrenched employee allegedly took BlueScope top trade secrets with her | Stuff.co.nz

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