Category: Privacy Breach
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: 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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Incident: 60GB of User Data Was Exposed by Australian Trading Company ACY Securities | Heimdal Security
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”
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Incident: NSW public insurer icare privacy bungle hits 193,000 people | iTnews
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
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Incident: Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme provider breached and treating its database as compromised | ZDNet
Australian Medical Data Hacked May 2022: Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme case management system provider CTARS breached. “Large volume” of sensitive health data exposed.
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Incident: 50k customers caught up in Tasmanian Spirit Super phishing attack | iTnews
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.
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Incident: Australian company Amart Furniture has 100k warranty customers details breached
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.
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Incident: Ransomware attack at Australian childcare provider Building Futures Montessori causes privacy breach and data loss
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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Incident: TfNSW hit by second cyber attack in less than 18 months | iTnews
Australian Privacy Breach May 2022: Transport for NSW hit by second cyber attack in less than 18 months. An online application used by vehicle examiners to conduct roadworthiness inspections in NSW has been struck by a cyber attack.
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Incident: Sky News employees caught in cyber breach | SHM
Australian Media Ransomware Attack February 2022. Sky News employees caught in cyber breach, Info accessed included full names, dwelling and e mail addresses, phone numbers, dates of beginning, tax file numbers, salaries, payroll IDs and superannuation fund particulars.
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NZ Ransomware Incident – NZ technology company iTCo hacked, data stolen | 1 News
New Zealand Ransomware Attack February 2022. NZ technology company iTCo Solutions hacked, data stolen. Those responsible are claiming to have stolen more than 4 gigabytes of data.
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Incident: NSW Government QR Code data leak exposes over 500,000 sensitive locations | Daily Mail Australia
Australian Government Privacy Breach February 2022: NSW Government QR Code data leak exposes over 500,000 sensitive locations. Address’s included Defence sites, bombing ranges and domestic violence shelters.
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Incident: Australian Red Cross warns clients of potential security breach | CRN Australia
Australian Privacy Breach February 2022: Australian Red Cross warns clients of potential security breach. May have been caught up in cyber security incident hitting the parent company.
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