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Incident: Amnesty International Australia slow with disclosure after December hack | SMH

by Steven Kirby | Apr 28, 2023 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Charities and Not For Profit, Confidentiality, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald | 0 |

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.

Incident: Sky News employees caught in cyber breach | SHM

by Steven Kirby | Feb 27, 2022 | 12.04 Logging and monitoring, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Availability, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Integrity, ISO27k 8.7 Protection against malware, 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: Domain hit by cyber attack, warns users to be careful with rental inquiries | SMH

by Steven Kirby | May 20, 2021 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Email Phishing, Phishing, Privacy Breach, Real Estate and Property Management, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald | 0 |

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.

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: Why you shouldn’t post a picture of a boarding pass on social media | SMH

by Steven Kirby | Sep 18, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Confidentiality, eSafety, Identity Theft, Politician and Politics, Privacy, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald, Social Media | 0 |

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.

Incident: Credit card and other details of Perth rental applicants may have been public for 21 months | SMH

by Steven Kirby | Dec 24, 2019 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Handling, Privacy Breach, Real Estate and Property Management, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald, Western Australia | 0 |

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.

Incident: Doctor, patient details allegedly stolen in CSL Behring Australia espionage scandal | SMH

by Steven Kirby | Oct 18, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Breach, Human Resources, Insider Threat, Medical and Health Care, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald | 0 |

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.

Incident: ‘Detailed and graphic’: Clinic faxes patients’ highly sensitive medical histories to wrong number | SMH

by Steven Kirby | Sep 18, 2019 | API Security, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Handling, Medical and Health Care, Privacy Breach, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald, Victoria | 0 |

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.

Incident: Thousands of Australian medical histories exposed in data breach | SMH

by Steven Kirby | Aug 7, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Handling, Medical and Health Care, Privacy Breach, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald | 0 |

August 07 2019 Thousands of Australian medical histories exposed in data breach

Incident: Australian Catholic University staff details stolen in fresh data breach | SMH

by Steven Kirby | Jun 18, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Breach, Education and Training, Hacked, Privacy Breach, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald | 0 |

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.

Incident: ANU says ‘sophisticated operator’ stole data in new cyber breach | SMH

by Steven Kirby | Jun 4, 2019 | Australian Capital Territory, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Breach, Education and Training, Hacked, Privacy Breach, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald | 0 |

ANU says ‘sophisticated operator’ stole data included bank details, passport information and academic records of current and former students and staff.

Incident: Almost 100,000 Australians’ private details exposed in attack on Westpac’s PayID | SMH

by Steven Kirby | Jun 3, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Banking and Finance, Data Breach, Hacked, Privacy Breach, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald | 0 |

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.

Incident: Cyber security official downloaded animated child porn on secure network | SMH

by Steven Kirby | Jan 28, 2019 | Australian Capital Territory, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Defence and Military, Federal Government, Inappropriate Material, Pornography, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald | 0 |

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.

Incident: NSW Policeman sent intimate photos from arrested woman’s phone to other officers via Facebook | SMH

by Steven Kirby | Jan 22, 2019 | Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Handling, Insider Threat, Law & Legal, New South Wales, Police and Law Enforcement, Privacy, Privacy Breach, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald, Social Media, State Government | 0 |

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.

by Steven Kirby | May 14, 2018 | APP Australian Privacy Principles, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2018, Data Breach, In the Press, Medical and Health Care, New South Wales, Privacy, Public Sector, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald, State Government, Website Compromise | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: May 14 2018 A cyber attack on Family Planning...

Incident: Medical records exposed by flaw in Telstra Health’s Argus software | SMH

by Steven Kirby | Mar 22, 2018 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2018, Medical and Health Care, Password, Privilege Access Management, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald, Telcommunications and Internet Service Provider, Vulnerability | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: March 22 2018 A flaw in medical software used...

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