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Incident: Data of thousands of TAFE SA students stolen in breach spanning over five years | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Education Data Breach, 4 April 2023. Data of thousands of TAFE SA students stolen in breach spanning over five years. SA Police “found” USB containing credentials such as driver’s licences and passports for enrolments prior to 2021 across all campuses.
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Incident: ANZ bank apologises after customers’ personal information found in Perth skip bin | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Physical Privacy Breach March 2023: ANZ bank apologises after customers’ personal information found in Perth skip bin. It’s believed the documents were discarded after the local ANZ bank branch closed down.
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Incident: The Good Guys customers possibly affected by data breach at former third-party provider My Rewards | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Retail Data Breach February 2023: The Good Guys customers possibly affected by data breach at former third-party provider My Rewards. Up to 1.5 million loyalty program customers hacked which is believed to have occurred in August 202
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Incident: 60GB of User Data Was Exposed by Australian Trading Company ACY Securities | Heimdal Security
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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Incident: Hundreds of classified Home Affairs documents believed sent to unsecured address in ‘serious’ breach of security protocols | ABC News Australia
Australian Data Breach May 2022: Hundreds of classified Home Affairs documents believed sent to unsecured address in ‘serious’ breach of security protocols. The contractor said to have sent classified documents to his personal email address was allowed to work in another federal government department after the cybersecurity breach.
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Incident NZ: New Zealand’s AA Traveler “@WeLoveNZ” data breach
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
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Incident: Ransomware attack at Australian childcare provider Building Futures Montessori causes privacy breach and data loss
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.
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Incident: Sky News employees caught in cyber breach | SHM
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.
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Incident: NSW Government QR Code data leak exposes over 500,000 sensitive locations | Daily Mail Australia
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.
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Incident: Australian Red Cross warns clients of potential security breach | CRN Australia
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.
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Incident: Australian Bunnings Customers Appear To Be Caught Up in FlexBooker Breach | Crikey
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.
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Incident: Swinburne University data breach exposes details of 5000 staff, students | iTnews
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.
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Incident: Transport for NSW data stolen in Accellion breach | iTnews
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.
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Incident: QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute caught up in Accellion breach | iTnews
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
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Incident: Oxfam Australia investigates suspected data breach | iTnews
Australian Charity Data Breach February 2021: Oxfam Australia investigates suspected data breach that allegedly impacted the data of 1.7 million supporters
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Incident: ASIC reports server breached via Accellion vulnerability | ZDNet
Australian Regulator Data Breach 2021: ASIC reports server breached via Accellion vulnerability. File Transfer Applications were downloaded illegally during the breach.
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Incident: Queensland Police Service apologises to gun owners over mass data breach in Moreton region | ABC News (Australia)
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.
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Incident: Ransomware attack forces three-week shutdown of NT Government IT system | ABC News (Australia)
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.
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NZ Incident: New Zealand Reserve Bank urgently responding to ‘illegal data breach’ | SMH
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.
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Incident: Law In Order hit by ransomware attack | iTnews
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.
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