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Australian Medical Data Hacked May 2022: Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme case management system provider CTARS breached. “Large volume” of sensitive health data exposed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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”
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Australian Regulator Data Breach 2021: ASIC reports server breached via Accellion vulnerability. File Transfer Applications were downloaded illegally during the breach.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: May 24 2019 Hacker claims to have stolen the...
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Australian real estate network First National has reportedly had information it held on job applicants leaked online.
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreMoving 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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