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NZ Incident: New Zealand’s AA Traveler “@WeLoveNZ” data breach
by Steven Kirby | May 13, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Data Breach, 🥝 NZ Incidents, In the Press, New Zealand, Travel and Accommodation | 0 |
New Zealand Data Breach May 2022: Vulnerability in @WeLoveNZ database causes data breach at New Zealand’s AA Traveller; names, email address, passwords and phone numbers compromised
Read MoreIncident: Ransomware attack at Australian childcare provider Building Futures Montessori causes privacy breach and data loss
by Steven Kirby | May 13, 2022 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Confidentiality, Data Breach, In the Press, Integrity, Privacy Breach, Services | 0 |
Australian Childcare Privacy Breach May 2022: Ransomware attack at Australian childcare provider Building Futures Montessori. Parents’ Names, email address, phone numbers, children’s names and date of birth compromised.
Read MoreIncident: Sky News employees caught in cyber breach | SHM
by Steven Kirby | Feb 27, 2022 | 12.02 Protection from Malware, 12.04 Logging and monitoring, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Availability, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Integrity, News Film and Media, Privacy Breach, SaaS - Software as a Service, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald | 0 |
Australian Media Ransomware Attack 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.
Read MoreIncident: NSW Government QR Code data leak exposes over 500,000 sensitive locations | Daily Mail Australia
by Steven Kirby | Feb 15, 2022 | 08.02.03 Handling of assets, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Daily Mail Australia, Data Breach, Privacy Breach, State Government, Unintended Disclosure Incident | 0 |
Australian Government Privacy Breach February 2022: NSW Government QR Code data leak exposes over 500,000 sensitive locations. Address’s included Defence sites, bombing ranges and domestic violence shelters.
Read MoreIncident: Australian Red Cross warns clients of potential security breach | CRN Australia
by Steven Kirby | Feb 1, 2022 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Charities and Not For Profit, Confidentiality, CRN Australia, Data Breach, Managed Services Provider, Medical and Health Care, Privacy Breach | 0 |
Australian Privacy Breach February 2022: Australian Red Cross warns clients of potential security breach. May have been caught up in cyber security incident hitting the parent company.
Read MoreIncident: Australian Bunnings Customers Appear To Be Caught Up in FlexBooker Breach | Crikey
by Steven Kirby | Jan 10, 2022 | 09 Access Control, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Crikey, Data Breach, Retail | 0 |
Australian Privacy Breach January 2022: Bunnings private customer data exposed in data breach. Names, phone numbers and email addresses have been exposed via a third-party website FlexBooker.
Read MoreIncident: Swinburne University data breach exposes details of 5000 staff, students | iTnews
by Steven Kirby | Apr 16, 2021 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Education and Training, iTnews, Privacy Breach, Victoria | 0 |
Australian University Data Breach April 2021: Melbourne’s Swinburne University data breach exposes details of 5000 staff, students. Swinburne says staff, student data has been leaking since 2013.
Read MoreIncident: Transport for NSW data stolen in Accellion breach | iTnews
by Steven Kirby | Feb 25, 2021 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Data Breach, iTnews, New South Wales, Privacy, Transport and Logistics, Vulnerability | 0 |
Australian Transport Data Breach February 2021: Transport for NSW data stolen in Accellion breach. Some information had been exfiltrated from its systems before the attack was noticed and halted.
Read MoreIncident: QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute caught up in Accellion breach | iTnews
by Steven Kirby | Feb 11, 2021 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Data Breach, iTnews, Medical and Health Care, Privacy, Vulnerability | 0 |
Australian Clinical Data Breach February 2021. QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute caught up in Accellion breach with 620MB of the data appearing to have been accessed on 25 December
Read MoreIncident: Oxfam Australia investigates suspected data breach | iTnews
by Steven Kirby | Feb 5, 2021 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Charities and Not For Profit, Confidentiality, Data Breach, iTnews, Privacy Breach | 0 |
Australian Charity Data Breach February 2021: Oxfam Australia investigates suspected data breach that allegedly impacted the data of 1.7 million supporters
Read MoreIncident: ASIC reports server breached via Accellion vulnerability | ZDNet
by Steven Kirby | Jan 27, 2021 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Banking and Finance, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Government Agency, Privacy Breach, Regulator and Authority, ZDNet | 0 |
Australian Regulator Data Breach 2021: ASIC reports server breached via Accellion vulnerability. File Transfer Applications were downloaded illegally during the breach.
Read MoreIncident: Queensland Police Service apologises to gun owners over mass data breach in Moreton region | ABC News (Australia)
by Steven Kirby | Jan 14, 2021 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Email, Policing and Law Enforcement, Privacy Breach, Queensland, State Government | 0 |
Queensland Data Breach January 2021: Queensland Police Service apologises to gun owners over mass data breach in Moreton region. QPS apologises after a data breach revealed personal details of licensed gun owners in the Moreton district.
Read MoreIncident: Ransomware attack forces three-week shutdown of NT Government IT system | ABC News (Australia)
by Steven Kirby | Jan 11, 2021 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Data Breach, Northern Territory, Ransomware, State Government | 0 |
Australian Ransomware Attack January 2021: Ransomware attack forces three-week shutdown of NT Government Supplier’s IT system. Insists the integrity and confidentiality of government data was never compromised.
Read MoreNZ Incident: New Zealand Reserve Bank urgently responding to ‘illegal data breach’ | SMH
by Steven Kirby | Jan 10, 2021 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Banking and Finance, Confidentiality, Data Breach, 🥝 NZ Incidents, New Zealand, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald | 0 |
New Zealand Data Breach, January 2021: New Zealand Reserve Bank urgently responding to ‘illegal data breach’. The bank issued a statement saying a “third party file sharing service” used by the bank to share and store some sensitive information, had been illegally accessed.
Read MoreIncident: Law In Order hit by ransomware attack | iTnews
by Steven Kirby | Nov 24, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Availability, Data Breach, Integrity, iTnews, Law & Legal, Ransomware, Services | 0 |
Australian Netwalker Ransomware Attack November 2020. Australian end-to-end document and digital solutions provider to the legal industry Law In Order says it has suffered a “cyber security incident” and has had to limit access to most of its website as a precaution.
Read MoreIncident: Orchard worker recruiter exposed sensitive personal data | iTnews
by Steven Kirby | Oct 29, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Confidentiality, Configuration, Control of operational software, Data Breach, Human Resources, iTnews, Privacy, Victoria | 0 |
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.
Read MoreIncident: Overseas hackers break into Mosman Council database. |The Daily Telegraph
by Steven Kirby | Oct 20, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Hacked, Human Resources, Local Government, New South Wales, Privacy, The Daily Telegraph | 0 |
Australian Database Hacked October 2020. Overseas hackers break into Sydney’s north shore Mosman Council salary database. A “small amount of money” was siphoned in the incident.
Read MoreIncident: Kleenheat customer names and addresses exposed in system breach | ZDNet
by Steven Kirby | Oct 19, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Privacy Breach, Utilities, Western Australia, ZDNet | 0 |
Australian Data Breach October 19 2020: WA energy retailer and supplier Kleenheat customer names and addresses exposed in system breach, believes the breach occurred in 2014 on a third-party system.
Read MoreIncident: Anglicare Sydney being held to ransom over sensitive data stolen from computer system | ABC News (Australia)
by Steven Kirby | Sep 19, 2020 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Availability, Breach Response, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Medical and Health Care, New South Wales, Privacy Breach, Ransomware | 0 |
Australian Medical Privacy Breach September 2020: Anglicare Sydney being held to ransom over sensitive data stolen from computer system, 17GB data transmitted to ‘remote location’ after attack.
Read MoreIncident: Australian company Jands appears to have been hit by Windows ransomware | iTWire
by Steven Kirby | Sep 1, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Availability, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Entertainment and Events, iTWire, New South Wales, Privacy, Privacy Breach, Ransomware, Retail | 0 |
Australian Ransomware Data Breach September 2020: Australian company Jands appears to have been hit by Windows ransomware. NetWalker encrypted and stole financial data, customer details and other miscellaneous data.
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