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Incident: NSW Education department hit by cyber at...

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

Incident: Tens of thousands locked out of ATO Online accounts after payroll hack | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Dec 17, 2021 | 12.2 Protection from Malware, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Federal Government, iTnews, Ransomware, SaaS - Software as a Service | 0 |

Australian Government Payroll Outage December 2021: Tens of thousands locked out of ATO Online accounts after payroll hack. Linked to ransomware attack on major payroll software provider Frontier Software last month.

Incident: Queensland’s CS Energy has its corporate systems infected by ransomware | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Nov 30, 2021 | 12.2 Protection from Malware, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Integrity, iTnews, Queensland, Utilities | 0 |

Australian Energy Provider Ransomware Attack November 2021. Queensland’s CS Energy has its corporate systems infected by ransomware. The incident has not impacted electricity generation.

Incident: Australia’s Copyright Agency investigates cyber incident | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Nov 22, 2021 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Federal Government, Government Agency, iTnews | 0 |

Australian Copyright Agency Cyber Incident November 2021: Agency investigates cyber incident and notifies 37,000-plus member.

Incident: Chris 21 payroll software provider hit by suspected ransomware attack | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Nov 17, 2021 | 12.2 Protection from Malware, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Human Resources, Integrity, iTnews, SaaS - Software as a Service, Services | 0 |

Australian Ransomware Attack November 2021. Frontier Software provider of Chris 21 payroll software hit by suspected ransomware attack. The cyber attack left 330 employers without automated payroll.

Incident: NSW Education department hit by cyber attack | iTnews

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

Australian Education Cyber Attack July 2021: NSW Education department hit by cyber attack just days before school term resumes. The attack had forced it to deactivate “a number of internal systems as a precaution.

Audit: Fed govt cyber resilience unchanged since last year: auditor | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jun 10, 2021 | Australia, Australian Audit Report 2021, Availability, Compliance, Confidentiality, Federal Government, Integrity, iTnews | 0 |

Australian Audit Fail June 2021: Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) finds cyber resilience unchanged since last year. Only one of 18 agency audited hits Essential Eight baseline.

Audit: Dozens of NSW councils still without basic cyber security controls, audit finds | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | May 28, 2021 | Australian Audit Report 2021, Availability, Compliance, Confidentiality, Integrity, iTnews, Local Government, New South Wales | 0 |

Australian Audit Fail May 2021<: Dozens of NSW councils still without basic cyber security controls, audit finds. Poor management of cyber security at 58 of the state’s 128 local councils, nine county councils and 13 joint organisations.

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: Vodafone hit by nationwide 4G outage | iTNews

by Steven Kirby | Apr 9, 2021 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, iTnews, Outage, Telcommunications and Internet Service Provider | 0 |

Australian Telco Outage April 2021: Vodafone Australia hit by nationwide 4G outage. Mobile data, voice services impacted for 10 hours.

Incident: Melbourne’s Eastern Health hit by suspected cyber attack | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Mar 18, 2021 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, iTnews, Medical and Health Care, State Government, Victoria | 0 |

Australian Hospital Cyber Attack March 2021: Melbourne’s Eastern Health hit by suspected cyber attack. Many systems still offline which includes the Box Hill and Maroondah Hospitals.

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: BTC Markets exposes customer names, emails in botched blast send | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Dec 2, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Banking and Finance, Confidentiality, Data Handling, Email, iTnews, Privacy, Privacy Breach | 0 |

Australian Email Privacy Breach December 2020. BTC Markets exposes customer names, emails in botched blast send. Australia’s largest cryptocurrency exchange apologises for error.

Audit: WA registry system flaws force auditor to delay findings by 18 months | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Nov 26, 2020 | Australian Audit Report 2020, Compliance, Confidentiality, Integrity, iTnews, State Government, Western Australia | 0 |

Western Australian Audit Report November 2020. WA registry system flaws force auditor to delay findings by 18 months. ‘Highly unusual step’ taken to protect foundational system.

Audit: Major NSW govt agencies still without disaster recovery plans for all systems | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Nov 25, 2020 | Australian Audit Report 2020, Availability, Compliance, iTnews, New South Wales, State Government | 0 |

Australian Audit Report November 2020. Major NSW govt agencies still without disaster recovery plans for all systems. Auditor finds at least seven agencies missing plans.

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.

Incident: Spotless hit by ransomware attack | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Oct 12, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Availability, Defence and Military, Education and Training, Integrity, iTnews, iTWire, Medical and Health Care, New Zealand, Public Sector, Ransomware, Utilities | 0 |

Australian Ransomware Attack October 2020: Spotless Group, the Downer-owned facilities services provider, is the latest high-profile Australian company to fall victim to ransomware attackers. Confirms a ‘number’ of servers ‘accessed’.

Audit: NSW govt blasted for failing councils on cyber security | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Oct 9, 2020 | Australian Audit Report 2020, Compliance, iTnews, Local Government, New South Wales | 0 |

Australian Audit Report October 2020: New South Wales government blasted for failing councils on cyber security. Audit “complete lack” of support for IT security.

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