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Australian Gambling Ransomware Attack, 24 June 2023: Wests Newcastle shuts down cashless gambling trail after digital payment processing firm Banktech experienced a ransomware attack.
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Australian Medical Data Handling Incident 04 May 2023. Drug and alcohol tests of graduate paramedics revealed in Ambulance Victoria data breach. The documents had become accessible to all employees on Ambulance Victoria’s internal intranet.
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UPDATED Australian Law Firm Ransomware Attack, 02 May 2023: Australian law firm HWL Ebsworth hit by Russian-linked Blackcat ransomware attack. Tasmanian Government and Office of the Australian Information Commissioner hit as clients. Hacking 4TB of data including IDs, finance reports, accounting data, client documents and credit card details.
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Australian Education Data Breach, 31 January 2023: Hundreds of parents hit by credit card hack at Melbourne’s Mount Lilydale Mercy catholic school. 400 parents are being warned their credit card information may have been stolen over the school holidays.
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Australian Retail Data Breach Incident October 2022: Wine dealer Vinomofo data breach: 500,000 customers at risk after wine dealer hit by cyber-attack. At risk of exposure are the names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and genders of customers.
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Australian Government Privacy Breach January 2021: Double blow: new data breach hits stranded Australians as Emirates suspends flights out of UK. Government admits inadvertently emailing revealing sensitive details of passengers booked on a repatriation flight from London
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Australian Ransomware Attack October 2020. Australian media monitoring provider Isentia ransomware attack expected to cost at least $7 million. Australian Cyber Security Centre is assisting Isentia, which has ‘most government departments and large corporations’ as clients.
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Australian Government Privacy Breach September 2020: DFAT admits email addresses of almost 3,000 Australians stranded overseas released in breach. Addressees were mistakenly listed in the ‘to’ field, rather than ‘bcc’, making them visible to other recipients.
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Australian Potential Data Breach September 2020: Top Australian tenancy blacklist firm under investigation by information commissioner. Trading Reference Australia obtains injunction to not hand over details to information commissioner
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Australian Email Privacy Breach August 2020: NSW police to investigate after leaking emails of people who complained about pepper spray at Black Lives Matter rally. Police say they launched an internal investigation after more than 150 people had email addresses leaked, but victims of leaks say they are yet to be contacted.
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Australian Privacy Breach April 2020: Email bungle at Australian Traffic Network seeking jobkeeper payments exposes staff’s personal details. Names, addresses and birth dates of more than 100 people shared in privacy breach
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Australian App Privacy Breach October 2019: 7-Eleven fuel app data breach exposes users’ personal details, users were able to see other customers’ data, including names, dates of birth and mobile numbers.
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September 10 2019 Australian Privacy Breach: Estimated 50,000 students using events app Get, previously known as Qnect, may have had their personal data exposed online.
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: November 24 2017 The Department of Social...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: November 9 2017 Australia’s corporate regulator...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: October 18 2017 Pizza giant Domino’s...
Read MoreIn its submission to the Senate inquiry into the Medicare data breach, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) said a Medicare card number alone would not allow access to a patient’s My Health Record. RACGP...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 4 2017 A darknet trader is illegally...
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Jan 19, 2016. The Australian federal police accidentally revealed the personal details of an assault victim to the alleged perpetrator, risking the safety of the complainant and his family, according to an AFP risk assessment.
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Highly active cyber extortion group claims hack of Australian HBS Group, data to be published within seven days. • Mon, 27 Jul 2026 • … [...]
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