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Australian Unauthorised Access Incident, 13 April 2023: Woman charged with accessing private data on NSW gov computer. Personal data which was shared with others for the purpose of criminal activity (kidnapping).
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Australian State Government Cyber Incident, 04 April 2023: Bug briefly exposed Service NSW data to other users. ‘Technical issue’ may have exposed data of 3700 customers.
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Australian Copyright Agency Cyber Incident November 2021: Agency investigates cyber incident and notifies 37,000-plus member.
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Australia Data Insider Access Incident May 2021: A Service NSW worker could face criminal charges involving accessing a restricted database. ICAC said, the agency had “misplaced confidence” in the effectiveness of its controls.
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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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Australian Government Privacy Breach Again October 2020: DFAT Stranded Aussies’ identities exposed again. The identities of Australians stranded overseas have been accidentally exposed for the third time in as many months.
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Australian Government Privacy Breach September 2020: DFAT admits email addresses of almost 3,000 Australians stranded overseas released in breach. Addressees were mistakenly listed in the ‘to’ field, rather than ‘bcc’, making them visible to other recipients.
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New Zealand Privacy Breach September 2020: RC plane and drone users’ details leaked by CAA New Zealand. CAA New Zealand violation of privacy involving people from around the world who filed complaints with them.
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Australian Audit Report September 2020: ANAO finds Services Australia lacking in cyber and cost aspects of WPIT. Services Australia did not apply an appropriate framework to manage cyber security risk.
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July 04 2019: Australia Post told to improve cyber security practices. Auditor says risk aren’t being managed “effectively”.
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: May 16 2019 The Australian Competition and...
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Mar 5, 2019 NZ Incident: NZ Transport Agency’s cyber security under scrutiny after 82 data breaches.
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Computer passwords are reset as Australia’s security agencies investigate a cyber-security breach at Federal Parliament.
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Phishers are targeting would-be tenderers to the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development with an email and fake AusTender landing page.
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Fisheries Queensland has blamed a software bug introduced via an update for an incident that left users of its Fishnet Secure portal exposed over the break.
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Mar 5, 2019 NZ Incident: NZ Transport Agency’s cyber security under scrutiny after 82 data breaches.
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: November 24 2018 The Victorian state government...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 01 2018 The details of about 4,000...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: June 01 2018 The face of disgraced American...
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Australian Information Security Report: May 2 2018 It took one NSW Government agency 49 days to...
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