Australian Finance Cyber Incident, 27 March 2023: Australian superannuation fund NGS Super hit by cyber attack, ‘limited data’ taken from its system. NGS Super said it could not publicly disclose the exact number of customers impacted, nor “details of the types of information impacted.”
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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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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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Australian Ransomware Attack June 2022: Queensland based builder Pivotal Homes reports ‘ransomware attack’ weeks before liquidation. Up to six months of records have reportedly been lost.
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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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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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Australian Cryptocurrency Hack February 2022: Young Australian Rich Listers watch wealth plummet after hack, crypto sell-off. While the Illuvium team secured the breach quickly and have begun repaying affected user.
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Australian Insider Privacy Breach March 2021: Australian Fair Work Commission upholds dismissal of ANZ banker who accessed private info about a colleague and celebrity. ANZ did not accept the employee’s explanation and terminated her employment immediately.
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Australian Regulator Data Breach 2021: ASIC reports server breached via Accellion vulnerability. File Transfer Applications were downloaded illegally during the breach.
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New Zealand Data Breach, January 2021: New Zealand Reserve Bank urgently responding to ‘illegal data breach’. The bank issued a statement saying a “third party file sharing service” used by the bank to share and store some sensitive information, had been illegally accessed.
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New Zealand Ransomware Attack December 2020. NZ financial strategies provider Staircase hit by Windows NetWalker ransomware. The attackers have listed a number of data files on their site on the dark web
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Australian Email Privacy Breach December 2020. BTC Markets exposes customer names, emails in botched blast send. Australia’s largest cryptocurrency exchange apologises for error.
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Australian Zoom Compromise November 2020: Levitas Capital closing after fake Zoom invite sinks $16m super fund investment. A fake Zoom invite has forced a Sydney hedge fund to close up shop after cybercriminals found a way into their emails in September
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Australian Potential Data Breach September 2020: Top Australian tenancy blacklist firm under investigation by information commissioner. Trading Reference Australia obtains injunction to not hand over details to information commissioner
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Australian Financial Hack August 2020: ASIC sues Australian financial services company RI Advice Group for repeated hacks. Hacker spent 155 hours logged in without detection.
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Australian Ransomware Attack April 2020: MyBudget blames ransomware hack for system outage affecting thousands of customers, was likely compromised as it quickly moved its employees onto work-from-home arrangements amid coronavirus.
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Australian Survey Hacked January 2020: Perth Mint visitor feedback survey data stolen after West Australian market insights company Metrix Consulting was hacked via a Phishing scam.
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Australian Banking Breach January 2020: Police & Nurses Bank WA discloses data breach, customer account information, balances exposed. The Australian bank says a cyberattack took place during a server upgrade.
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NZ Privacy Breach 7 November 2019. New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority apologises for privacy breach where complaints documents were potentially accessible via internet.
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Australian Unintended Disclosure Incident 02 October 2019: Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation investigating privacy breach after financial documents sent to ABC producer.
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