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Australian Energy Privacy Breach, 15 May 2024: Victorian energy provide Sumo Energy slammed by data breach, as energy and internet customers have details leaked. Personal details of approximately 40,000 customers were compromised, including approximately 3,000 Australian passport numbers.
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Australian Retail Email Error, 23 April 2024: Personal data of ‘thousands’ of Hungry Jack’s staff exposed in internal leak. An email to 198 staff from the training and communication portal, included an attached spreadsheet of staff information.
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Australian Not-for-profit Hacked 28 April 2023: Amnesty International Australia slow with disclosure after December hack. Amnesty said none of the information met the legal threshold that would have required Amnesty to disclose.
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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.
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Australian Real Estate Cyber Incident May 2021: Domain hit by cyber attack, warns users to be careful with rental inquiries. There is a risk that some of your personal information may have been accessed by an unauthorised third party.
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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.
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Australian Social Media Privacy Breach September 2020: Why you shouldn’t post a picture of a boarding pass on social media. Security experts are repeating warnings to keep pictures of documents with personal information and barcode.
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Australian Realestate Privacy Breach November 2019: Information such as credit card details and birth certificates uploaded during tenancy applications may have been published on the website of a Perth property management business Primus Realty for up to 21 months, a warning to clients has revealed.
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Australian Former Employee Data Breach 18 October 2019: CSL Behring has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, claiming he stole sensitive information with the intention of passing it on to his new company Pharming.
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September 18 2019 Australian Medical Privacy Breach: A Melbourne medical clinic has been inadvertently faxing highly sensitive patient details including mental health and family medical histories to a Greenvale man for at least two years.
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August 07 2019 Thousands of Australian medical histories exposed in data breach
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Australian Data Breach June 2019: The Australian Catholic University has revealed the sensitive personal information of staff members has been stolen in a cyber attack.
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ANU says ‘sophisticated operator’ stole data included bank details, passport information and academic records of current and former students and staff.
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Australian Data Breach June 2019: The private details of almost 100,000 Australian bank customers have been exposed in a cyber attack on the real-time payments platform PayID, which allows the instant transfer of money between banks using either a mobile number or email address.
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A former senior cyber security official has been sentenced to a suspended prison term for using a secure government network to download animated child pornography.
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A former Sydney police officer is facing up to a year in jail after he took intimate images from an arrested woman’s phone and sent them to fellow officers on Facebook.
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: December 20 2018 ActewAGL has collected 91 per...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: November 28 2018 Sensitive personal details...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: November 24 2018 The Victorian state government...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: May 19 2018 The names, email addresses and...
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In brief As many as 4.8 million Origin Energy customers could be affected by a cyber attack that exposed personal data. • Experts have warned the fallout … [...]
Origin Energy has confirmed that unauthorised access to customer information has occurred, marking what is believed to be the largest publicly known … [...]
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Insider security risks: a frequently overlooked threat Cyber security and privacy controls are usually thought of as ways to protect from external … [...]
The AICD, in partnership with the Human Technology Institute (HTI) at the University of Technology Sydney, has updated its key artificial … [...]
Energy company Origin has confirmed there has been unauthorised access to and disclosure of some customers' data. In a statement released via the ASX, … [...]
Origin Energy has confirmed the personal information of some of its customers has been stolen in a suspected cyber hack. The energy giant said in a … [...]
The Joint Policing Cybercrime Coordination Centre has warned that criminals are using artificial intelligence to create highly convincing investment … [...]
Origin Energy, Australia's biggest power provider, is investigating a suspected cyber attack affecting up to 5 million Australians. A hacker calling himself John Doe claims to have stolen personal data [...]
Origin Energy says an investigation has been launched into a potential hacking incident with reports two million customers could have been affected. The company has 4.8 million customers. The nation's [...]
One of Australia's largest energy companies, Origin Energy, says it is investigating a security breach that "may have" affected customer data. "Origin … [...]
Origin Energy is investigating a potential cyber hack that may have compromised the data of some customers. In a statement, the major energy provider … [...]