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Posted by Steven Kirby | Jan 14, 2021 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Email, Policing and Law Enforcement, Privacy Breach, Queensland, State Government | 0 |

Incident: Victoria Police allegedly use LEAP database to pursue, stalk, harass women prompting calls for inquiry | ABC News Australia

by Steven Kirby | Dec 15, 2022 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Insider Threat, Police and Law Enforcement, Privacy Breach, State Government, Unauthorised Access, Victoria | 0 |

Australian Privacy Incident December 2022: Victoria Police allegedly use LEAP database to pursue, stalk, and harass women prompting calls for an inquiry. In the past five years, there have been complaints against 178 police for misusing LEAP.

Incident: Telstra apologises for accidentally publishing data of thousands of customers online | ABC News Australia

by Steven Kirby | Dec 11, 2022 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Data Handling, Privacy Breach, Telcommunications and Internet Service Provider | 0 |

Australian Data Handling Incident December 2022: Telstra apologises for accidentally publishing data of thousands of customers online. Names, numbers and addresses of some unlisted customers released online.

Incident: The Smith Family says details of around 80,000 donors may have been exposed in hacking attack | ABC News Australia

by Steven Kirby | Nov 22, 2022 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Charities and Not For Profit, Confidentiality, Email Account Compromise, Privacy Breach | 0 |

Australian Cyber Incident November 2022: The Smith Family says details of around 80,000 donors may have been exposed in hacking attack. Investigation revealed a combination of names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and donation records may have been accessed

Incident: Legal Aid ACT refuses to pay ‘not insignificant’ ransom to hackers who stole data of Canberra domestic violence survivors | ABC News Australia

by Steven Kirby | Nov 16, 2022 | ABC News (Australia), Australian Capital Territory, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Charities and Not For Profit, Confidentiality, Law & Legal, Privacy Breach | 0 |

Australian Cyber Attack November 2022: Technology group providing services to Victorian government departments hit by a cyber attack. The company says hackers have revealed a sample “of what is believed to be stolen data”

Incident: Australian Clinical Labs accused of ‘sitting on’ hack that saw patient data posted to the dark web | ABC News Australia

by Steven Kirby | Oct 28, 2022 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Medical and Health Care, Privacy Breach | 0 |

Australian Medical Privacy Breach October 2022: Australian Clinical Labs subsidiary Medlab Pathology, accused of ‘sitting on’ hack that saw patient data posted to the dark web. ACL says it first learned of the attack in February but believed no data was stolen

Incident: Australian strata company SSKB breached | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Oct 28, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Availability, Confidentiality, Integrity, ISO27k 8.7 Protection against malware, iTnews, Privacy Breach, Queensland, Ransomware, Real Estate and Property Management | 0 |

Australian Ransomware Attack, 28 October 2022: Gold Coast Australian: Strata management firm SSKB is the latest company to fall victim to a ransomware attack. Attackers’ posted a ransom demand and claimed to have stolen 200GB of data.

Incident: EnergyAustralia portal compromised, details of 323 customers leaked | iTWire

by Steven Kirby | Oct 23, 2022 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, ISO 27k 5 Organisational Controls, ISO27k 5.17 Authentication information, iTWire, Password, Privacy Breach, Utilities | 0 |

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.

Incident: Vinomofo data breach: 500,000 customers at risk after wine dealer hit by cyber-attack | The Guardian

by Steven Kirby | Oct 18, 2022 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Privacy Breach, Retail, The Guardian | 0 |

Australian Retail Data Breach Incident October 2022: Wine dealer Vinomofo data breach: 500,000 customers at risk after wine dealer hit by cyber-attack. At risk of exposure are the names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and genders of customers.

Incident: Singtel-owned IT services provider Dialog hit by Windows ransomware | iTWire

by Steven Kirby | Oct 10, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Availability, Confidentiality, Integrity, ISO27k 8.7 Protection against malware, IT Industry, iTWire, Privacy Breach, Queensland, Ransomware | 0 |

Australian Ransomware Attack October 2022: Singtel-owned Australian-based IT services provider Dialog hit by Windows ransomware. The attack on Dialog was carried out using the Agenda ransomware that runs only on Windows systems

Incident: Leading fruit, veg grower Costa Group leaks data after phishing attack | iTWire

by Steven Kirby | Oct 9, 2022 | Agriculture and Farming, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, iTWire, Privacy Breach, Victoria | 0 |

Australian Phishing Incident October 2022: The Costa Group, Australia’s leading grower, packer and marketer of fresh fruit and vegetables, has been hit by “a malicious and sophisticated IT phishing attack”. The attack could have resulted in passport, bank and superannuation details being leaked, as also tax file numbers.

Incident: Student details, photos exposed in University of WA data breach | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Aug 1, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Education and Training, iTnews, Privacy Breach, Western Australia | 0 |

Australian University Privacy Incident August 2022: Student details, photos exposed in University of Western Australia data breach. The privacy breach that may have compromised the information of hundreds of current and past student.

Incident: WA Arts and Culture Trust discloses potential data breach | CRN Australia

by Steven Kirby | Jul 25, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, CRN Australia, Entertainment and Events, Privacy Breach, SaaS - Software as a Service, Western Australia | 0 |

Australian Arts Privacy Breach July 2022: Western Australia Arts and Culture Trust discloses potential data breach in it SaaS digital marketing platform. The vendor WordFly revealed it has been offline since 10 Jul.

Incident: Deakin University reveals breach of 47,000 students’ details | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jul 13, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Education and Training, iTnews, Password, Privacy Breach, SMiShing, Threat Vector, Victoria | 0 |

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

Incident: Melbourne’s Port Phillip Prison jail targeted by anonymous hackers in cyber attack | MSN

by Steven Kirby | Jul 7, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Availability, Confidentiality, Hacked, Integrity, iTnews, MSN Australia, Police and Law Enforcement, Privacy Breach, State Government, Victoria | 0 |

Australian Jail Cyber Attack July 2022: Melbourne’s Port Phillip Prison jail targeted by anonymous hackers in cyber attack. Hackers take control of the G4S operated jail’s online network.

Incident: 60GB of User Data Was Exposed by Australian Trading Company ACY Securities | Heimdal Security

by Steven Kirby | Jun 6, 2022 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Banking and Finance, Confidentiality, Configuration, Data Breach, In the Press, Privacy Breach | 0 |

Australian Data Beach June 2022: 60GB of User Data Was Exposed by Australian Trading Company ACY Securities. A Representative declared that the Exposed Server Was an “Insignificant One”

Incident: NSW public insurer icare privacy bungle hits 193,000 people | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jun 2, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Banking and Finance, Confidentiality, Data Handling, Email, Insider Threat, iTnews, Medical and Health Care, New South Wales, Privacy Breach | 0 |

Australian Insurer Privacy Breach June 2022: NSW public insurer icare sends private details of 193,000 workers to wrong employers. Excel spreadsheet emailed to 587 wrong employers and brokers

Incident: Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme provider breached and treating its database as compromised | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | May 31, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Hacked, Medical and Health Care, New South Wales, Privacy Breach, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Medical Data Hacked May 2022: Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme case management system provider CTARS breached. “Large volume” of sensitive health data exposed.

Incident: 50k customers caught up in Tasmanian Spirit Super phishing attack | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | May 30, 2022 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Banking and Finance, Confidentiality, Email Phishing, iTnews, Privacy Breach, Tasmania | 0 |

Australian Superfund Phishing Attack May 2022: 50k customers caught up in Tasmanian Spirit Super phishing attack. Data possibly compromised after attacker overcame MFA on email account.

Incident: Australian company Amart Furniture has 100k warranty customers details breached

by Steven Kirby | May 20, 2022 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, In the Press, Privacy Breach, Retail | 0 |

Australian Retailer Data Breach May 2022: Australian company Amart Furniture has 100k warranty customers details breached. Database hosted on AWS was the source of the information.

Incident: Ransomware attack at Australian childcare provider Building Futures Montessori causes privacy breach and data loss

by Steven Kirby | May 13, 2022 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Confidentiality, Data Breach, In the Press, Integrity, Privacy Breach, Services | 0 |

Australian Childcare Privacy Breach May 2022: Ransomware attack at Australian childcare provider Building Futures Montessori. Parents’ Names, email address, phone numbers, children’s names and date of birth compromised.

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