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Posted by Steven Kirby | Jul 8, 2021 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Education and Training, iTnews, New South Wales, State Government | 0 |

Incident: Defence Housing Australia investigates third-party provider hack exposure | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Sep 7, 2023 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Building and Construction, Defence and Military, Federal Government, iTnews, Managed Services Provider | 0 |

Australian Defence Agencies Third-Party Breach, 07 September 2023. Defence Housing Australia and Department of Veterans’ Affairs investigates third-party provider hack exposure. The breached service provider was not identified.

Incident: University of Sydney caught up in third-party data breach | iTNews

by Steven Kirby | Sep 1, 2023 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Education and Training, iTnews, New South Wales, Privacy, Third-Party Risk | 0 |

Australian University Third-Party Data Breach, 1 September 2023: The University of Sydney has disclosed a data breach potentially affecting international students. The data breach involved a third-party provider, still undisclosed.

Incident: Ventia takes systems offline to contain cyber attack | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jul 11, 2023 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Critical Infrastructure, iTnews, Services | 0 |

Australian Critical Infrastructure Attack, 11 July 2023: Australian critical infrastructure company Ventia has been breached in an online attack. Ventia specialises in long-term operation, maintenance, and management of critical public and private assets and infrastructure.

Incident: AU and NZ – SmartPay investigating breach after ransomware attack | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jun 19, 2023 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Banking and Finance, Confidentiality, iTnews, New Zealand, Privacy Breach | 0 |

Australian Eftpos Ransomware Attack, 19 June 2023: Australian and New Zealand listed company SmartPay investigating breach after ransomware attack. The Eftpos hardware provider says criminals stole customer data.

Incident: FIIG Securities isolates client-facing systems after attack | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jun 12, 2023 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Banking and Finance, Confidentiality, iTnews, Privacy Breach | 0 |

Australian Finance Broker Privacy Breach, 12 June 2023: Australian brokerage firm FIIG Securities isolates client-facing systems after attack. “Identification details and documents” purportedly accessed.

Incident: TechnologyOne investigates ‘cyber incident’ on M365 system | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | May 10, 2023 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, iTnews, Queensland, SaaS - Software as a Service | 0 |

Australian SaaS Provider Breach 10 May 2023: TechnologyOne investigates ‘cyber incident’ on M365 system. “Unauthorised third party” has accessed the company’s internal Microsoft 365 platform.

Incident: Woman charged with accessing private data on NSW gov computer | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Apr 13, 2023 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Government Agency, iTnews, New South Wales, Police and Law Enforcement, State Government | 0 |

Australian Unauthorised Access Incident, 13 April 2023: Woman charged with accessing private data on NSW gov computer. Personal data which was shared with others for the purpose of criminal activity (kidnapping).

Incident: Bug briefly exposed Service NSW data to other users | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Apr 4, 2023 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Government Agency, iTnews, New South Wales, State Government | 0 |

Australian State Government Cyber Incident, 04 April 2023: Bug briefly exposed Service NSW data to other users. ‘Technical issue’ may have exposed data of 3700 customers.

Incident: IPH enters trading halt after ‘cyber incident’ | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Mar 15, 2023 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, iTnews, Law & Legal, New South Wales | 0 |

Australian Cyber Incident, 15 March 2023: IPH enters trading halt after ‘cyber incident’. Unauthorised access to the document management systems of the IPH head office and two IPH member firms in Australia, Spruson & Ferguson (Australia) and Griffith Hack.

Incident: Frontier Software breach spreads to NSW Health | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Mar 9, 2023 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Human Resources, iTnews, Medical and Health Care, New South Wales, SaaS - Software as a Service | 0 |

Australian Ransomware Attack March 2022:: Frontier Software 2021 breach spreads to NSW Health, now reported. Frontier Software advised that payroll information of around 1600 former and current staff employed breached.

Incident: Australian National Maritime Museum hit by alleged ‘trusted insider’ attack | iTNews

by Steven Kirby | Mar 6, 2023 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Cyber Fraud, Federal Government, Insider Threat, Integrity, iTnews, New South Wales, State Government | 0 |

Australian Insider Cyber Fraud, 06 March 2023: Australian National Maritime Museum hit by alleged ‘trusted insider’ attack. Contractor allegedly accessed accounting system, changing bank account details stored to his own.

Audit: Victoria audit warns of weak IT controls in council systems | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Feb 27, 2023 | A05.35 Independent review of information security, Australian Audit Report 2023, Availability, Compliance, Confidentiality, Integrity, iTnews, Local Government, State Government, Victoria | 0 |

Victorian Local Government Audit Report 27 February 2023: Victoria audit reports a significant rise in IT control weaknesses in council systems. Calls for Essential Eight adoption.

Incident: Fire Rescue Victoria investigating security incident | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Dec 16, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Availability, iTnews, State Government, Victoria | 0 |

UPDATE Australian Cyber Incident December 2022: Fire Rescue Victoria confirms cyber attack from ‘external third party’ as outage continues. Outage could last “three or four days.”

Incident: APA, Viterra caught up in Frontier ransomware attack | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Nov 2, 2022 | Agriculture and Farming, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Availability, Building and Construction, Confidentiality, Human Resources, Integrity, ISO27k 8.7 Protection against malware, iTnews, SaaS - Software as a Service | 0 |

Australian Ransomware November 2022: Infrastructure operator APA Group, and agribusiness Viterra caught up in Frontier ransomware attack. Other previously unreported incidents, Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation and Workskil Australia.

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