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Australian Health Website Hack, 4 December 2024: Western Australian Onestep Disability Services website defaced by DXPLOIT and other ‘hacktivists’. The incident underscores the growing threat of cyber-attacks by hacktivist groups.
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Australian Jail Cyber Attack July 2022: Melbourne’s Port Phillip Prison jail targeted by anonymous hackers in cyber attack. Hackers take control of the G4S operated jail’s online network.
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Australian Medical Data Hacked May 2022: Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme case management system provider CTARS breached. “Large volume” of sensitive health data exposed.
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Australian Cryptocurrency Hack February 2022: Young Australian Rich Listers watch wealth plummet after hack, crypto sell-off. While the Illuvium team secured the breach quickly and have begun repaying affected user.
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Australian Water Utility Hacked November 2021: Queensland water supplier Sunwater targeted by hackers in months-long undetected cyber security breach. A Queensland Audit Office report found “threat actors” had targeted an older, more vulnerable version of the system.
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Australian Service Provider Hacked? October 2020: Nitro Software user database put up for sale on dark web. A group that uses the name Shiny Hunters appears to have put up a database exfiltrated during a data breach of ASX-listed Nitro Software, a firm that offers a service to create, edit and sign PDFs and digital documents, on the dark web for sale.
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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.
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Australian Financial Hack August 2020: ASIC sues Australian financial services company RI Advice Group for repeated hacks. Hacker spent 155 hours logged in without detection.
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Australian Cyber Attack June 2020: Cyber attack halts Lion production of milk and beer, attack disrupted manufacturing and knocked out its internal IT systems.
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Australian Privacy Hacked May 2020: AFL fan website Big Footy data breach exposed private details of up to 100,000 users and 70 million records online, including private conversations between users.
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Australian Cyber Attack March 2020: A highly sensitive military database containing the personal details of tens of thousands of Australian Defence Force (ADF) members was shut down for 10 days due to fears it had been hacked.
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Australian Survey Hacked January 2020: Perth Mint visitor feedback survey data stolen after West Australian market insights company Metrix Consulting was hacked via a Phishing scam.
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Australian Banking Breach January 2020: Police & Nurses Bank WA discloses data breach, customer account information, balances exposed. The Australian bank says a cyberattack took place during a server upgrade.
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Australian Medical Data Breach November 2019: A hack at one of NSW’s largest drug rehabilitation services, Adele House has left hundreds of patients at risk.
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Australian Medical Data Breach and Cyber Fraud November 2019: Australian medical group Monash IVF patients receive bogus emails after ‘malicious cyber attack’ on fertility company.
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Australian DataBreach CyberCrime November 2019: Cyber criminals hack Perth Anaesthetic Group hospital and steal patients’ personal information in terrifying security breach. Several patients were sent fake invoices from the hackers demanding payments.
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Australia Social Media Hack October 2019: Australian Cricketer Shane Watson has apologised to his social media followers after inadvertently posting a number of X-Rated photos after his Twitter and Instagram accounts were hacked.
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NZ Hacked 29 September 2019: Promotional screens on a central Auckland Asics store were hacked to show pornographic content on Sunday morning.
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August 08 2019: Around 30 employees have not been paid on time after having personal information stolen in what TAFE NSW said was a “targeted phishing attack”.
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Insider Threat 2nd July 2019 – A Queensland Police Officer has now stood down from official duty with the force pending an investigation into allegations of unauthorised access to confidential information.
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