Australian Medical Ransomware Attack, 06 Jun 2025: Victorian based Ascot Vale Health Group targeted by Global ransomware group. Global ransomware group has so far not listed how much data it has allegedly stolen or what kind of data may have been compromised.
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Australian Racing Industry Ransomware Attack, 05 Jun 2025: Victorian based RISE Racing confirms Sarcoma ransomware attack. Reports indicate that 1.6GB of sensitive data was stolen, including: Banking details, financial records, participant personal information and operational data related to the racing industry.
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Australian Accounting Firm Ransomware Attack, 16 May 2025: Victorian MKA Accountants confirms Qilin ransomware attack. Qilin published 12 documents as part of its leak post, including internal correspondence, financial statements, and insurance information
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Australian Education Ransomware Attack, 18 December 2024: Victoria – Waverley Christian College confirms cyber incident after Fog ransomware gang claims attack. Fog ransomware operation claims to have stolen five gigabytes of data including financial and insurance documents, internal correspondence, and other sensitive information.
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Australian Manufacturing Ransomware Attack, 22 November 2024: Victorian based Snow Brand Australia confirms SafePay ransomware attack. Stolen 24 gigabytes, including financial data invoices, purchase orders, and details of retail partners. Also employee data, medical certificates, superannuation details, and Medicare applications.
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Australian Racing Club Ransomware Attack, 16 June 2024: The Victoria Racing Club has been hit by ransomware. Medusa group claiming credit for gaining access to the organisation’s network stealing 128.1GB of data and demanding US$700,000.
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Australian Food Manufacturing Data Breach, 6 June 2024: Four’N Twenty owner Patties Foods based in Victoria reportedly targeted in ‘data breach’. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler, discovered two separate database exposures that were publicly accessible and non-password protected.
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Australian Childcare Privacy Breach, 31 May 2024: Victoria’s largest childcare org Guardian Childcare, discloses data breach, it was targeted in cyberattack. In the data breach, attackers stole identification documents, potentially impacting thousands of families.
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Australian Energy Privacy Breach, 15 May 2024: Victorian energy provide Sumo Energy slammed by data breach, as energy and internet customers have details leaked. Personal details of approximately 40,000 customers were compromised, including approximately 3,000 Australian passport numbers.
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Australian Retailer Ransomware Breach, 15 January 2024: Qilin ransomware gang has shared 37.6 gigabytes of data belonging to Victorian print music company Hal Leonard Australia. Hal Leonard given a week to pay an undisclosed sum of money for ransom.
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Australian Travel Agency Breach, 11 January 2024: Melbourne travel agency Inspiring Vacations, exposes customer data after leaving database publicly accessible. The leaked data, includes passport images, travel visa certificates, travel itineraries, and partial credit card numbers.
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Australian Court Ransomware Attack, 02 January 2024: Cyber attack on Victoria’s court system may have exposed recordings of sensitive cases. The Qilin ransomware attacked the court system’s audio-visual archive, which staff discovered on December 21
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Australian Manufacturer Ransomware Privacy Breach, 28 December 2023: Yakult Australia targeted in cyber attack, employee files published on dark web. 95 gigabytes of data including passports, medical assessments, salaries, and performance reviews.
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Australian Privacy Breach, 24 December 2023: Life Saving Victoria server hacked by ‘malicious actors’. The extent of the personal information is limited and does not pose a serious threat to the individuals.
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Australian Pathology Ransomware Attack, 14 November 2023: Australian pathology company Tissupath, reported a ransomware attack at a third-party IT supplier, Core Desktop. About 130,000 victims of a data hack at pathology company TissuPath in August involving referrals issued between 2011 and 2020 was to blame.
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Australian Patient Data Breach, 05 October 2023: Personal data of almost 200 patients exposed in hack of Melbourne hospital staff member’s email. Worker sent details about the patients to their personal email account, which was later hacked.
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Australian Real Estate Ransomware Attack, 04 October 2023: Ransomware gang posts 30GB of data it claims belongs to Victorian real estate group. Ragnar Locker gang is claiming to have breached Network Pacific Real Estate following a failure in negotiations.
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Australian IT Services Ransomware Attack, 05 September 2023: Russian ransomware gang AlphV breaches Core Desktop, a South Melbourne IT services company. TissuPath, Strata Plan and Barry Plant Blackburn were all clients of Core Desktop.
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Australian Event Management Incident, 06 July 2023: Australian critical infrastructure company Ventia has been breached in an online attack. Information including names, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers and bank details.
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Australian Privacy Breach, 05 July 2023: There’s been a privacy breach on the state government’s new campsite booking system. Personal details of other campers shown to other campers
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