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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)

by Steven Kirby | Mar 23, 2023 | ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Human Resources, Mining and Resources, Privacy Breach, SaaS - Software as a Service | 0 |

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.

Incident: Frontier Software breach spreads to NSW Health | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Mar 9, 2023 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2023, Confidentiality, Human Resources, iTnews, Medical and Health Care, New South Wales, SaaS - Software as a Service | 0 |

Australian Ransomware Attack March 2022:: Frontier Software 2021 breach spreads to NSW Health, now reported. Frontier Software advised that payroll information of around 1600 former and current staff employed breached.

Incident: APA, Viterra caught up in Frontier ransomware attack | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Nov 2, 2022 | Agriculture and Farming, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Availability, Building and Construction, Confidentiality, Human Resources, Integrity, ISO27k 8.7 Protection against malware, iTnews, SaaS - Software as a Service | 0 |

Australian Ransomware November 2022: Infrastructure operator APA Group, and agribusiness Viterra caught up in Frontier ransomware attack. Other previously unreported incidents, Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation and Workskil Australia.

Incident: Coles, Westpac, AMP and Department of Defence caught up in ‘significant’ data breach of Finite Recruitment | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Dec 18, 2021 | 12.06 Technical vulnerability management, ABC News (Australia), Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Confidentiality, Human Resources, Privacy Breach, SaaS - Software as a Service, Services | 0 |

Australian Recruitment Ransomware Incident December 2021: Coles, Westpac, AMP and Department of Defence caught up in ‘significant’ data breach of Finite Recruitment. Conti claims to have stolen more than 300 gigabytes of data in this attack.

Incident: Chris 21 payroll software provider hit by suspected ransomware attack | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Nov 17, 2021 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Human Resources, Integrity, ISO27k 8.7 Protection against malware, iTnews, SaaS - Software as a Service, Services | 0 |

Australian Ransomware Attack November 2021. Frontier Software provider of Chris 21 payroll software hit by suspected ransomware attack. The cyber attack left 330 employers without automated payroll.

Incident: Orchard worker recruiter exposed sensitive personal data | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Oct 29, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Confidentiality, Configuration, Control of operational software, Data Breach, Human Resources, iTnews, Privacy, Victoria | 0 |

Australian Workers Data Exposed October 2020. Orchard Tech a Melbourne company recruiting horticultural workers exposed sensitive personal data. AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) instance containing thousands of sensitive personal documents left open for anyone to access for over a month.

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Category: Human Resources

Incident: Rio Tinto says staff’s personal data may have been hacked in memo after an attack on GoAnywhere software | ABC News (Australia)

Incident: Frontier Software breach spreads to NSW Health | iTnews

Incident: APA, Viterra caught up in Frontier ransomware attack | iTnews

Incident: Coles, Westpac, AMP and Department of Defence caught up in ‘significant’ data breach of Finite Recruitment | ABC News (Australia)

Incident: Chris 21 payroll software provider hit by suspected ransomware attack | iTnews

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