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Incident: Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme provider breached and treating its database as compromised | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | May 31, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Hacked, Medical and Health Care, New South Wales, Privacy Breach, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Medical Data Hacked May 2022: Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme case management system provider CTARS breached. “Large volume” of sensitive health data exposed.

Incident: NSW government casual recruiter suffers ransomware hit | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Dec 17, 2021 | 12.06 Technical vulnerability management, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Confidentiality, New South Wales, Privacy Breach, SaaS - Software as a Service, Services, State Government, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Ransomware Incident December 2021: NSW government casual recruiter Finite Recruitment suffers Conti ransomware hit. Attackers claimed to have stolen more than 300GB of financial and personal data.

Incident: NSW iVote fails during local council elections | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Dec 6, 2021 | 12.01.03 Capacity management, 17 Information security aspects of business continuity management, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, New South Wales, State Government, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Voting Outage December 2021: New South Wales’ iVote online voting system failed on Saturday during the state’s local government elections. Update: NSWEC finds iVote system failure may have impacted three local election outcomes.

Audit: None of NSW’s lead cluster agencies have implemented all Essential Eight controls | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Nov 1, 2021 | A05.35 Independent review of information security, ASD Essential Eight, Australian Audit Report 2021, Compliance, New South Wales, State Government, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Audit Failure November 2021: None of New South Wales lead cluster agencies have implemented all Essential Eight controls – Premier and Cabinet, Communities and Justice, Customer Service, Education, Planning, Regional NSW, Health, Treasury, and Transport.

Incident: NSW Health confirms data breached due to Accellion vulnerability | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Jun 6, 2021 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Medical and Health Care, New South Wales, Privacy Breach, Website Compromise, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Vulnerability Incident June 2021: NSW Health is the latest Australian government entity to confirm being impacted by a vulnerability in the Accellion file transfer system. Different types of information, including identity information and in some cases, health-related personal information, were included in the attack.

Incident: Enterprises need to change passwords following ClickStudios, Passwordstate attack | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Apr 24, 2021 | 09.02.03 Management of privileged access rights, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Confidentiality, Integrity, IT Industry, Password Management, ZDNet | 0 |

Australia Software Company Cyberattack April 2021: Enterprises need to change passwords following Australian privilege access management company ClickStudios, Passwordstate attack. Advises “please reset all the stored passwords, VPNs/Firewall/Switches, local accounts or any server passwords”

Incident: ASIC reports server breached via Accellion vulnerability | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Jan 27, 2021 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Banking and Finance, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Government Agency, Privacy Breach, Regulator and Authority, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Regulator Data Breach 2021: ASIC reports server breached via Accellion vulnerability. File Transfer Applications were downloaded illegally during the breach.

Incident: Kleenheat customer names and addresses exposed in system breach | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Oct 19, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Privacy Breach, Utilities, Western Australia, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Data Breach October 19 2020: WA energy retailer and supplier Kleenheat customer names and addresses exposed in system breach, believes the breach occurred in 2014 on a third-party system.

Audit: ANAO finds Services Australia lacking in cyber and cost aspects of WPIT | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Sep 25, 2020 | Australia, Australian Audit Report 2020, Federal Government, Government Agency, Risk Management, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Audit Report September 2020: ANAO finds Services Australia lacking in cyber and cost aspects of WPIT. Services Australia did not apply an appropriate framework to manage cyber security risk.

Incident: Data#3 says it has been hit by a non-notifiable cyber incident | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Aug 27, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, IT Industry, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Cyber Incident August 2020: Data#3 says it has been hit by a non-notifiable cyber incident. Company has made contact with 28 of its impacted customers and says its ongoing operations are fine.

Incident: Seek apologises for ‘internal technical issue’ that exposed user details | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Aug 12, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Education and Training, Privacy Breach, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Privacy Breach August 2020: Seek apologises for ‘internal technical issue’ that exposed user details but it has no intention of reporting the issue as a notifiable data breach to the Office of Australian Information Commissioner.

Incident (Updated): Citizen data compromised as Service NSW falls victim to phishing attack | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | May 14, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Email Phishing, New South Wales, State Government, ZDNet | 0 |

Updated September 2, 2020 | Australian Phishing Attack April 2020: Citizen data compromised as Service NSW falls victim to phishing attack. The attack involved the illegal accessing of 47 Service NSW staff members’ email accounts.

Incident: Police & Nurses Bank WA discloses data breach, customer account information, balances exposed | ZDnet

by Steven Kirby | Jan 15, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Banking and Finance, Breach Notification, Data Breach, Hacked, Privacy Breach, Western Australia, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Banking Breach January 2020: Police & Nurses Bank WA discloses data breach, customer account information, balances exposed. The Australian bank says a cyberattack took place during a server upgrade.

NZ Incident: Tū Ora Compass Health data breach exposes medical data of one million people | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Oct 8, 2019 | Medical and Health Care, New Zealand, Privacy Breach, ZDNet | 0 |

NZ Medical Data Breach 8 October 2019. New Zealand’s Tū Ora Compass Health data breach exposes medical data of one million New Zealand residents.

NZ Incident: New Zealand ComCom suffers breach after laptop theft | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Oct 8, 2019 | 11.02 Equipment Security, New Zealand, Police and Law Enforcement, Privacy Breach, ZDNet | 0 |

NZ Laptop Stolen 8 October 2019: New Zealand’s Commerce Commission (ComCom) confidential information on laptop belonging to ‘external provider’ containing over 200 meeting and interview transcripts taken in burglary, which has seen the provider dumped.

Incident: Aussie ‘hacker’ jailed for unauthorised access and insider trading | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Jun 26, 2019 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Banking and Finance, Insider Threat, News Film and Media, Victoria, ZDNet | 0 |

An Australian IT consultant has on Tuesday been sentenced to three years imprisonment after pleading guilty to a total of 11 charges for insider trading, unauthorised access to data with the intention to commit a serious offence, and the alteration of electronic devices required by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

Incident: Australian tech unicorn Canva suffers security breach | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | May 24, 2019 | Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Breach, Hacked, IT Industry, New South Wales, Privacy Breach, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: May 24 2019 Hacker claims to have stolen the...

Incident: First National ‘dealing with authorities’ after reported information leak | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Jan 8, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Breach, Privacy Breach, Queensland, Real Estate and Property Management, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian real estate network First National has reportedly had information it held on job applicants leaked online.

RBA wants banks involved in Australian government digital identity solution | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Nov 3, 2017 | Australia, Authentication, Banking and Finance, Cybersecurity, Federal Government, Identity Management, ZDNet | 0 |

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has told the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue that it wants to see Australia’s banks involved with building out the federal government’s digital...

Review asks for tighter Medicare card privacy controls from Human Services | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Oct 17, 2017 | Australia, Authentication, Cybersecurity, Federal Government, Medical and Health Care, Privacy, ZDNet | 0 |

Moving the authentication platform, educating citizens, and stricter privacy controls were among the steps recommended to the Department of Human Services by a review into heath providers’ access to the Health Professional...

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