Incident: Personal details of thousands of residents revealed by Melbourne council in data breach | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: November 11 2016 A local council in...
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Incident: ‘Appalling behaviour’: Surf webcams hacked to perv on sunbathing women | Yahoo7
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: October 22 2016 A series of beach mounted...
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Incident: Dunlop’s Aussie site caught up in CryptXXX ransomware-spreading campaign | iTnews
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 20 2016 Dunlop’s site compromised,...
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Incident: Police probe real estate cyber attack on Australian real estate digital firm | Herald Sun
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.
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Incident: Candidate hit by sexually explicit Facebook hack | The Chronicle
March 21, 2016. Toowoomba Regional Council candidate, Diane Warr was left dumbfounded after a hacker posted sexually explicit photographs on her personal Facebook page.
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Incident: Dandenong Plaza website hacked to show a disturbing image of a clown | Dandenong Journal
March 7, 2016. HACKERS have replaced the Dandenong Plaza website home page with a disturbing image of a Christmas-themed clown.
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Incident: WA parliament breached by undetected virus | iTnews
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.
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Incident: Hackers Attack The NSW Government Department Of Resources And Energy | ABC News (Australia)
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.
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Incident: Australian Federal Police accidentally gave victim’s details to alleged attacker | The Guardian
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.
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Incident: Malware attacks Melbourne Health systems | iTnews
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: January 19 2016 One of Victoria’s largest...
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Incident: NSW Medical Council finds out PDF redaction is hard, the hard way | The Register
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.
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Incident: A Canberra psychology clinic accidentally reveals clients’ personal details in email | The Canberra Times
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: Australian Hyatt hotels hacked, guest credit card details stolen | Australian Business Traveller
January 15, 2016. Hyatt Hotels is the latest hotel chain to fall victim to hackers stealing sensitive credit card information from guests around the world, including flagship properties in Australia.
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Incident: Vic MP ‘likes’ porn after Twitter hack | Herald Sun
Jan 12, 2016. Victorian Creative Industries Minister Martin Foley says someone hacked his Twitter account and liked tweets of pornographic images.
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Incident: Vengeful retrenched employee allegedly took BlueScope top trade secrets with her | Stuff.co.nz
Australian Information Security Incident Reported: January 9 2016 Former BlueScope employee has...
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