Australian Ports Cyber Attack, 11 November 2023: Major Australian port operator DP World Australia shuts down amid cyber security incident, impacting goods in and out of the country. Operator failed to fix a critical IT vulnerability; the patch had been released over a month earlier.
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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 Cryptocurrency Hack February 2022: Young Australian Rich Listers watch wealth plummet after hack, crypto sell-off. While the Illuvium team secured the breach quickly and have begun repaying affected user.
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Australian Insider Threat December 2021: Charges over Victoria Police data breach. Accessing police information, disclosing police information, and intentionally communicating protected information.
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Australian Recruitment Ransomware Incident December 2021: Coles, Westpac, AMP and Department of Defence caught up in ‘significant’ data breach of Finite Recruitment. Conti claims to have stolen more than 300 gigabytes of data in this attack.
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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 Cyber Security Incident December 2021: Cyber criminals force shutdown of New South Wales’ Prime/Oracle based budgeting system. The problem is part of a worldwide vulnerability identified in Log4j.
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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 Water Utility Hacked November 2021: Queensland water supplier Sunwater targeted by hackers in months-long undetected cyber security breach. A Queensland Audit Office report found “threat actors” had targeted an older, more vulnerable version of the system.
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Hackers are alleged to have stolen more than 80,000 documents totalling 100 gigabytes of data from a Sydney-based property investment firm. • Fri, 01 … [...]
Scammers observed impersonating Aussie toll operator Linkt and the New Zealand Police and Ministry of Justice. • Wed, 29 Apr 2026 • … [...]
A cyber attack impacting a New Zealand city council has compromised the data of hundreds of people. • Wed, 29 Apr 2026 • Security *]:clear-none … [...]
Hackers claim to have stolen 441 gigabytes of data, including internal correspondence, driver’s licence scans and revealing Christmas party photos. • … [...]
Major Australian ice-cream retailer Gelatissimo has launched an investigation into claims made by hackers that the company was breached in a … [...]
Two-thirds of Australians are sharing key information that makes them easy targets for scammers and cyber criminals. The new research from the Department of Home Affairs also found more than [...]
A 45-year-old New South Wales Treasury employee has been arrested and charged with accessing and downloading over 5,500 sensitive government documents containing confidential, commercial and financial information across multiple NSW [...]
Australian banks, power providers and infrastructure firms do not have access to test their systems against a powerful new AI cybersecurity risk, Anthropic's Mythos. Anthropic has claimed Claude Mythos is [...]
A newly published Australian Army Research Centre paper has highlighted the need for Australia to establish an Australian national cyber reserve … [...]
Australian investment firm Generation Life says there is no evidence of any unauthorised transaction, but is investigating a potential data breach. • … [...]
A determination issued today by the Privacy Commissioner finds that the 2Apply rental technology platform, operated by InspectRealEstate (IRE), … [...]
