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Posted by Steven Kirby | Jul 8, 2021 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Education and Training, iTnews, New South Wales, State Government | 0 |

Incident: University of Sydney caught up in third-party data breach | iTNews

by Steven Kirby | Sep 1, 2023 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Education and Training, iTnews, New South Wales, Privacy, Third-Party Risk | 0 |

Australian University Third-Party Data Breach, 1 September 2023: The University of Sydney has disclosed a data breach potentially affecting international students. The data breach involved a third-party provider, still undisclosed.

Incident: Australian vocational and trades education centre hit by Lockbit | iTWire

by Steven Kirby | Jul 19, 2023 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Education and Training, iTWire, Privacy, Ransomware | 0 |

Australian Education Ransomware Attack, 19 July 2023: Australian Academy of Vocational Education and Trades trading as Academia, has been hit by the Windows ransomware group Lockbit 3.0. The attackers have given the organisation a deadline of 24 July to get in touch and presumably negotiate a ransom payment.

Incident: Data of thousands of TAFE SA students stolen in breach spanning over five years | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Apr 4, 2023 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Education and Training, South Australia, State Government | 0 |

Australian Education Data Breach, 4 April 2023. Data of thousands of TAFE SA students stolen in breach spanning over five years. SA Police “found” USB containing credentials such as driver’s licences and passports for enrolments prior to 2021 across all campuses.

Incident: Hundreds of parents hit by credit card hack at Lilydale school | The Age

by Steven Kirby | Jan 31, 2023 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Credit Card, Education and Training, The Guardian, Victoria | 0 |

Australian Education Data Breach, 31 January 2023: Hundreds of parents hit by credit card hack at Melbourne’s Mount Lilydale Mercy catholic school. 400 parents are being warned their credit card information may have been stolen over the school holidays.

Incident: Queensland University of Technology shuts IT systems after being hit by ransomware attack | ABC News Australia

by Steven Kirby | Dec 22, 2022 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Education and Training, Queensland, Ransomware | 0 |

Australian University Ransomware Attack, 22 December 2022: Queensland University of Technology shuts IT systems after being hit by ransomware attack. 11,405 individuals had their data breached in a December cyber attack.

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: 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: NSW Education department hit by cyber attack | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jul 8, 2021 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Education and Training, iTnews, New South Wales, State Government | 0 |

Australian Education Cyber Attack July 2021: NSW Education department hit by cyber attack just days before school term resumes. The attack had forced it to deactivate “a number of internal systems as a precaution.

Incident: Kununurra Department of Education worker charged with illegally accessing confidential information | The West Australian

by Steven Kirby | Jun 11, 2021 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Education and Training, Insider Threat, Privacy Breach, The West Australian, Unauthorised Access, Western Australia | 0 |

Australian Unauthorised Access Incident June 2021: Western Australia – Kimberley – Kununurra Department of Education worker charged with illegally accessing confidential information. Charged after his office was raided by WA police last month

Incident: UniSA locks down devices and Citrix solution after cyber attack | Arnet

by Steven Kirby | May 18, 2021 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Education and Training, In the Press, Outage, South Australia | 0 |

Australian University Incident May 2021. UniSA locks down devices and Citrix solution after cyber attack. A number of PCs and laptops have been disabled, while Citrix VA is now unavailable.

Incident: Swinburne University data breach exposes details of 5000 staff, students | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Apr 16, 2021 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Education and Training, iTnews, Privacy Breach, Victoria | 0 |

Australian University Data Breach April 2021: Melbourne’s Swinburne University data breach exposes details of 5000 staff, students. Swinburne says staff, student data has been leaking since 2013.

Incident: Melbourne’s RMIT University suspends classes after suffering IT outage | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Feb 19, 2021 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Education and Training, Email Phishing, Phishing, Victoria | 0 |

Australian Education Outage February 2021: Melbourne’s RMIT University suspends classes after suffering IT outage. Reportedly the significant cyber attack was caused by a phishing scam.

Incident: Spotless hit by ransomware attack | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Oct 12, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Availability, Defence and Military, Education and Training, Integrity, iTnews, iTWire, Medical and Health Care, New Zealand, Public Sector, Ransomware, Utilities | 0 |

Australian Ransomware Attack October 2020: Spotless Group, the Downer-owned facilities services provider, is the latest high-profile Australian company to fall victim to ransomware attackers. Confirms a ‘number’ of servers ‘accessed’.

Incident: Misconfigured UTAS SharePoint site exposed 20,000 students’ details | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Sep 21, 2020 | 09 Access Control, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Confidentiality, Configuration, Education and Training, iTnews, Privacy Breach, Tasmania | 0 |

Australian Privacy Exposure September 2020: Misconfigured UTAS SharePoint site exposed 20,000 students’ details. Security settings allowed broad access to files.

Incident: Data breach exposes tens of thousands of NSW driver’s licences online | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Sep 1, 2020 | 09 Access Control, ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Confidentiality, Configuration, Education and Training, New South Wales, Privacy Breach, State Government | 0 |

Australian Government Privacy Breach September 2020: Data breach exposes tens of thousands of NSW driver’s licences online. The documents feature scans of licences which reveal information such as names and addresses.

Incident: Seek apologises for ‘internal technical issue’ that exposed user details | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Aug 12, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Education and Training, Privacy Breach, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Privacy Breach August 2020: Seek apologises for ‘internal technical issue’ that exposed user details but it has no intention of reporting the issue as a notifiable data breach to the Office of Australian Information Commissioner.

Audit: NSW unis taken to task over poor cyber stance | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jun 4, 2020 | Australian Audit Report 2020, Education and Training, iTnews, New South Wales, State Government | 0 |

Australian Audit Report June 2020: NSW unis taken to task over poor cyber stance. Institutions still without cyber risk policies, audit finds.

Incident: Melbourne TAFE data breach exposes 55k student, staff files | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Mar 11, 2020 | ARN from IDG, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Data Breach, Education and Training, iTnews, Privacy, Privacy Breach, Victoria | 0 |

Australian Education Privacy Breach March 2020: Melbourne Polytechnic TAFE data breach exposes 55000 student, staff files. Sensitive financial, health data accessed.

Incident: ANU students forced to re-sit exam after data leak | RiotACT

by Steven Kirby | Nov 19, 2019 | Australian Capital Territory, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Handling, Education and Training, In the Press | 0 |

Australian University Data Leak November 2019: Australian National University ANU students forced to re-sit exam after data leak

Incident: Data breach may affect 50,000 Australian university students using ‘Get’ app | The Guardian

by Steven Kirby | Sep 10, 2019 | API Security, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Breach, Education and Training, Entertainment and Events, Privacy Breach, The Guardian | 0 |

September 10 2019 Australian Privacy Breach: Estimated 50,000 students using events app Get, previously known as Qnect, may have had their personal data exposed online.

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