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Australian Energy Privacy Breach, 15 May 2024: Victorian energy provide Sumo Energy slammed by data breach, as energy and internet customers have details leaked. Personal details of approximately 40,000 customers were compromised, including approximately 3,000 Australian passport numbers.
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Australian Travel Agency Breach, 11 January 2024: Melbourne travel agency Inspiring Vacations, exposes customer data after leaving database publicly accessible. The leaked data, includes passport images, travel visa certificates, travel itineraries, and partial credit card numbers.
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Australian Data Beach June 2022: 60GB of User Data Was Exposed by Australian Trading Company ACY Securities. A Representative declared that the Exposed Server Was an “Insignificant One”
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Australian Politician DNS Redirect January 2021. Pauline Hanson’s website redirected to refugee council site. Ms Hanson’s mistake of allowing her DNS registration to lapse has complicated fixing the link
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Australian Workers Data Exposed October 2020. Orchard Tech a Melbourne company recruiting horticultural workers exposed sensitive personal data. AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) instance containing thousands of sensitive personal documents left open for anyone to access for over a month.
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Australian Privacy Exposure September 2020: Misconfigured UTAS SharePoint site exposed 20,000 students’ details. Security settings allowed broad access to files.
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Australian Government Privacy Breach September 2020: Data breach exposes tens of thousands of NSW driver’s licences online. The documents feature scans of licences which reveal information such as names and addresses.
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Privacy Breach 09 September 2019: The NZ Transport Agency admits to a technology botch up leaving what was meant to be a highly secure data key wide open.
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August 29 2019 Australian Privacy Breach: TGI Fridays Australia restaurant chain warns loyalty reward program member of exposed data incident – Unsecured S3 bucket.
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NZ Cyber Incident August 08 2019: Rosehill College Auckland which requires pupils to buy their own digital devices has come under fire after all data was deleted from students’ laptops during a school-mandated software update.
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Data Breach 27th June 2019 – Data from a student management system was exposed by an open S3 bucket, an Australian training company MEGT has confirmed.
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Fisheries Queensland has blamed a software bug introduced via an update for an incident that left users of its Fishnet Secure portal exposed over the break.
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: December 24 2018 The Victorian Building...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: August 30 2018 Australian business process...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 27 2018 Telstra customer stumbles across...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 18 2018 The National Health Practitioner...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: November 17 2017 The Australian Broadcasting...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: November 2 2017 The personal details of almost...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: October 11 2017 Professional services company...
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