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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 |

Incident: ANZ bank apologises after customers’ personal information found in Perth skip bin | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Mar 1, 2023 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Banking and Finance, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Physical Security, Privacy Breach | 0 |

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.

Incident: The Good Guys customers possibly affected by data breach at former third-party provider My Rewards | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Feb 23, 2023 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Privacy Breach, Retail | 0 |

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

Incident: 60GB of User Data Was Exposed by Australian Trading Company ACY Securities | Heimdal Security

by Steven Kirby | Jun 6, 2022 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Banking and Finance, Confidentiality, Configuration, Data Breach, In the Press, Privacy Breach | 0 |

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”

Incident: Hundreds of classified Home Affairs documents believed sent to unsecured address in ‘serious’ breach of security protocols | ABC News Australia

by Steven Kirby | May 30, 2022 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Email, Federal Government | 0 |

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.

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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