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Incident: Thousands of identifiable Northern Territory patient health files sent to overseas-based software vendor in government data breach | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Medical Data Handling Incident 25 May 2023: Thousands of identifiable Northern Territory patient health files sent to overseas-based software vendor in government data breach. NT Health says the onus is on individuals to check if the privacy of their medical records has been breached.
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Incident: ID, bank details, contact information at risk as cyber criminals hack PH Property Bendigo real estate agency | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Property Group Data Breach, 30 March 2023: ID, bank details, contact information at risk as cyber criminals hack PH Property Bendigo real estate agency. The company said the cybercriminals were now targeting some clients of the small business.
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Incident: Rio Tinto says staff’s personal data may have been hacked in memo after an attack on GoAnywhere software | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Cyber Attack March 2023: Rio Tinto says staff’s personal data may have been hacked in memo after an attack on GoAnywhere software. Stolen data possibly includes payslips, overpayment letters.
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Incident: Health worker sacked over ‘serious breach’ of patients’ privacy as ACT government investigates data misuse | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Health Privacy Breach, 22 March 2023: Health worker sacked over ‘serious breach’ of patients’ privacy as ACT government investigates data misuse. Private records of some Canberra Health Services patients ‘deliberately’ sent to industrial partner.
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Incident: ANZ bank apologises after customers’ personal information found in Perth skip bin | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Physical Privacy Breach March 2023: ANZ bank apologises after customers’ personal information found in Perth skip bin. It’s believed the documents were discarded after the local ANZ bank branch closed down.
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Incident: The Good Guys customers possibly affected by data breach at former third-party provider My Rewards | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Retail Data Breach February 2023: The Good Guys customers possibly affected by data breach at former third-party provider My Rewards. Up to 1.5 million loyalty program customers hacked which is believed to have occurred in August 202
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Incident: Victoria Police allegedly use LEAP database to pursue, stalk, harass women prompting calls for inquiry | ABC News Australia
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.
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Incident: Telstra apologises for accidentally publishing data of thousands of customers online | ABC News Australia
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.
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Incident: The Smith Family says details of around 80,000 donors may have been exposed in hacking attack | ABC News Australia
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
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Incident: Legal Aid ACT refuses to pay ‘not insignificant’ ransom to hackers who stole data of Canberra domestic violence survivors | ABC News Australia
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”
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Incident: Australian Clinical Labs accused of ‘sitting on’ hack that saw patient data posted to the dark web | ABC News Australia
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
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Incident: Australian strata company SSKB breached | iTnews
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.
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Incident: EnergyAustralia portal compromised, details of 323 customers leaked | iTWire
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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Incident: Vinomofo data breach: 500,000 customers at risk after wine dealer hit by cyber-attack | The Guardian
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.
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Incident: Singtel-owned IT services provider Dialog hit by Windows ransomware | iTWire
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
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Incident: Leading fruit, veg grower Costa Group leaks data after phishing attack | iTWire
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.
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Incident: Student details, photos exposed in University of WA data breach | iTnews
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.
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Incident: WA Arts and Culture Trust discloses potential data breach | CRN Australia
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.
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Incident: Deakin University reveals breach of 47,000 students’ details | iTnews
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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Incident: Melbourne’s Port Phillip Prison jail targeted by anonymous hackers in cyber attack | MSN
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.
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