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Australian Court Ransomware Attack, 02 January 2024: Cyber attack on Victoria’s court system may have exposed recordings of sensitive cases. The Qilin ransomware attacked the court system’s audio-visual archive, which staff discovered on December 21
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Australian Ransomware Attack, 05 September 2023: Russian ransomware gang AlphV targets pathology company, law firms in latest string of attacks. Breached: Code Desktop, TissuPath, Strata Plan, Barry Plant Blackburn, Tisher Liner FC Law
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UPDATED Australian Law Firm Ransomware Attack, 02 May 2023: Australian law firm HWL Ebsworth hit by Russian-linked Blackcat ransomware attack. Tasmanian Government and Office of the Australian Information Commissioner hit as clients. Hacking 4TB of data including IDs, finance reports, accounting data, client documents and credit card details.
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Australian Cyber Incident, 15 March 2023: IPH enters trading halt after ‘cyber incident’. Unauthorised access to the document management systems of the IPH head office and two IPH member firms in Australia, Spruson & Ferguson (Australia) and Griffith Hack.
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Australian Cyber Attack November 2022: Technology group providing services to Victorian government departments hit by a cyber attack. The company says hackers have revealed a sample “of what is believed to be stolen data”
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Australian Insider Threat December 2021: Charges over Victoria Police data breach. Accessing police information, disclosing police information, and intentionally communicating protected information.
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Australian Legal Privacy Breach January 2021: Allens victim of high-profile cyber attack. Client data was compromised after a file-sharing system designed by California-based cloud company Accellion was accessed illegally earlier this month
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Australian Netwalker Ransomware Attack November 2020. Australian end-to-end document and digital solutions provider to the legal industry Law In Order says it has suffered a “cyber security incident” and has had to limit access to most of its website as a precaution.
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Australian Privacy Breach November 2020. Bugged lawyers’ conversations available to Victorian police thanks to ‘IT error’. The massive breach of the rights to confidentiality and legal professional privilege has potentially contaminated an unknown number of criminal cases and convictions.
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Australian Ransomware Attack June 2020: Matthews Australasia and Fitzpatrick Rushinek Associates have been hit by attackers using the Mespinoza/Pysa Windows ransomware, the same malware that was used to take down the Australian money management firm MyBudget, security sources have told iTWire
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Australian Privacy Breach February 2020: Federal court data breach sees names of protection visa applicants made public on the website of the Federal Court putting asylum seekers at risk
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Australian Cyber Crime November 2019: Two Sydney women have been charged over their alleged involvement in a $500,000 business email compromise scam.
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Australian Cyber Stalking November 2019: Hobart man pleads guilty to stalking and controlling ex-girlfriend’s car with his computer. He downloaded and set up an online application that gave him control over the stop and start function of his ex-lover’s car and allowed him to track her movements.
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Australian DDoS Attack Arrest October 2019: Victorian man arrested over multiple DDoS attacks against a telecommunications business and a large shopping complex.
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Insider Threat 2nd July 2019 – A Queensland Police Officer has now stood down from official duty with the force pending an investigation into allegations of unauthorised access to confidential information.
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A former Sydney police officer is facing up to a year in jail after he took intimate images from an arrested woman’s phone and sent them to fellow officers on Facebook.
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: September 19 2018 NSW Police have arrested and...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: August 17 2018 Apple Inc said on Friday no...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 26 2018 An Australian medical booking app,...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: December 17 2017 At least two Queensland law...
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