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Incident: Queensland Police Service apologises to ...

Posted 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 |

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

Incident: 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.

Incident: 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.

Incident: 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.

Incident: 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.

Incident: 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.

Incident: 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.

Incident: 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.

Incident: 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

Incident: 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

Incident: 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.

Incident: 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.

Incident: 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.

NZ 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.

Incident: 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.

Incident: 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.

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