Australian Football Cyber Attack, 16 November 2023: Port Adelaide Football Club Hackers post Port files online. Member data is believed not to be compromised though members should be wary of communications from the club.
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Australian Patient Data, 28 October 2023: SA Health patients caught up in data breach of third-party platform Personify Care. Health information of 121 patients and the names and phone numbers of about 12,000 others was deleted by an “unauthorised third party.
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Australian Health Insurer Hacked, 28 October 2023: The Super SA data hack impacted thousands but took two months to come to light. Here’s what we know. 14,011 members may have been impacted by a cyber security incident involving a former third-party service provider.
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Australian Education Data Breach, 4 April 2023. Data of thousands of TAFE SA students stolen in breach spanning over five years. SA Police “found” USB containing credentials such as driver’s licences and passports for enrolments prior to 2021 across all campuses.
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Australian Payroll Privacy Breach, 18 May 2022: More than 90,000 South Australian public servants now involved in payroll data breach. 13,088 current and former public servants had their personal information stolen in a cyber attack last year.
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Australian State Government Ransomware Attack December 2021: Up to 80000 South Australian Government employee data stolen in Frontier Software ransomware attack. Data accessed include names, dates of birth, tax file numbers, addresses, bank account details and pay details (remuneration, tax withheld, superannuation contributions).
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Australian Health Services Privacy Breach November 2021: South Australia Ambulance Service patients’ personal information stolen from consultancy firm. The personal details of 28,000 patients have been lost on a stolen a storage device.
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Australian Healthcare Cyber Incident June 2021 – Uniting Communities investigating possible data breach amid ‘cyber incident’, access to some of its technology systems had been blocked.
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Australian University Incident May 2021. UniSA locks down devices and Citrix solution after cyber attack. A number of PCs and laptops have been disabled, while Citrix VA is now unavailable.
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Australia Medical System Incident May 2021: SA hospital staff put on alert after computer glitch adds digit to medication dosages. SA Health says it’s not aware of any “adverse clinical outcomes”
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Australian Winery Ransomware Attack March 2021: Taylor’s Estate Winery Targeted By Hackers. South Australia Clare Valley winery was hit by a ransomware attack, incapacitating the business.
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Australian Ransomware Attack April 2020: MyBudget blames ransomware hack for system outage affecting thousands of customers, was likely compromised as it quickly moved its employees onto work-from-home arrangements amid coronavirus.
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Australian Local Government Ransomware January 2020: Suspected Ryuk ransomware attack locks down Adelaide’s City of Onkaparinga council. Forced staff to start their holidays earlier than planned.
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: August 05 2018 In a recent medical data breach,...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: February 12 2018 The Queensland...
Read MoreNEARLY half of South Australia’s SMEs limit their online presence in order to protect themselves from the threat of cybercrime, a survey has found. Source: Survey finds close to half of South Australia’s SMEs limit their online...
Read MoreThe laws were sold as a further measure against child exploitation material, but the Greens worry they are being expanded to cover offences such as fraud. Source: Computer password laws being ‘sneaked’ through SA...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: October 25 2017 Property buyers are warned to...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 27 2017 A computer laptop containing...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 20 2017 Ricoh’s Australia office has...
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