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Australian Education Access Breach, 24 June 2024: Perth, Western Australia – Year 11 students expelled for hacking schools IT systems for years undetected. Students used the teacher’s details to access their grades and other students’ personal information.
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Australian Medical Centre Breach, 04 April 2024: Diabetes WA has disclosed a data breach affecting people who engaged with its telehealth service. Breach via one compromised Diabetes WA user account.
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Australian Retail Breach, 09 January 2024: Australian retailer The Iconic, promises refunds after a spate of fraudulent transactions on customer accounts. While not directly hacked, the unauthorised third party used a technique known as ‘credential stuffing’.
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Australian Energy Utility Incident October 2022. Electricity and gas retailer EnergyAustralia has disclosed a breach of its MyAccount platform. The company says affected 323 small business and residential customers and was automated through use of a password bot.
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Australian Retail Cyber Incident July 2022: New security alert issued to all Woolworths Everyday Rewards members. Fraudsters have likely obtained members’ login credentials and account details from online scams or other sources.
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Australian Cyber Attack July 2022: Deakin University reveals privacy breach of 47,000 students’ details. Subset targeted with smish sent via officially-used SMS channel
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A Sydney man has been charged by AFP for alleged involvement in WickedGen.com.
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Early Warning Network, a NSW company providing weather, fire and other alerts to councils and others, had a login compromised and used by an unknown party to make threats about customer security.
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 18 2018 The National Health Practitioner...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: March 22 2018 A flaw in medical software used...
Read MoreThe message isn’t getting through: almost nine out of ten people use the same password with multiple accounts. Source: Most people have lax password habits, says ME Bank
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 24 2017 Regional internet registry for...
Read More“If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can’t get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different” – Bruce Schneier
Read MoreThe Australian Signals Directorate still wants people to generate ridiculous passwords that are very insecure. Source: Our spy agencies know less about cybersecurity than the Daily Mail
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: February 3 2017 The Australian Nuclear Science...
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Major Australian bank NAB has restored systems following online outages that prevented customers from using their services. • Thu, 24 Sep 2026 • … [...]
An unprecedented breach of a government website by a rogue OpenAI agent will sharpen Australia's push to impose stricter safety, transparency and … [...]
The hotel company, Quest, is warning customers they may need to replace their driver's licences and passports. It comes after a cyber hack last month exposed swathes of personal information, [...]
The federal government has raised concerns about uncontrolled and unauthorised AI activity after an AI model infiltrated a Medicare platform owned by Services Australia. The OpenAI agent accessed data not [...]
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed an AI agent hacked into an Australian Medicare portal earlier this year. The OpenAI agent reportedly gained unauthorised access to private and public data [...]
A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say … [...]
Key points An OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to both public and non-public files on a Medicare statistics reporting portal, Anthony Albanese … [...]
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed an AI agent hacked into an Australian Medicare data portal earlier this year. Speaking in New York, Mr … [...]
Quest Apartments has advised customers affected by a data breach in August to replace their passports and driver's licences after its investigation … [...]
The Flying Kangaroo and a Sydney hotel warn customers not to share payment details following suspicious messages targeting Qantas Hotels customers. • … [...]
Hackers have targeted a local disability support organisation, with passports and confidentiality agreements already published on the dark web. • Mon, … [...]
Nearly half of Australians who have experienced cyber crime did not report it, with researchers warning that serious offending is being missed by … [...]