Audit Failure 2019: Queensland government cyber defences fail ethical hack test, sensitive information accessed with relative ease.
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Incident: Victorian hospitals targeted in ransomware cyber attack | ABC News (Australia)
October 01 2019 Victorian Hospital Ransomware Attack: The scale of a ransomware attack on some of the state’s major regional hospitals that has forced healthcare providers to go offline.
Audit: Northern Territory School children’s data exposed to cyber security threats due to education department oversight | ABC Australia
August 17 2019 Audit Finding: The confidential records of children and teachers have been left vulnerable to cyber security attacks and data mismanagement due to education departmental oversight in the Northern Territory Government, a report from the auditor generalβs office has revealed.
Incident: ‘Shocking’ myki privacy breach for millions of users in data release | ABC News (Australia)
August 15 2019 Privacy Breach: Just a few taps on and off, and a couple of tweets β that’s all it would take for a hacker or stalker to identify you and track down your movements with a myki.
Audit: WA guns database sprayed over integrity issues | iTnews
Western Australiaβs firearms database has been roundly criticised by the stateβs auditor for containing significant data integrity issues that impede the regulation of guns in the community.
Incident: Officer used police computer network to stalk dozens of potential Tinder dates | ABC News Australia
A former long-serving police officer has been jailed for six months for illegally accessing the personal details of almost 100 women to determine if they were “suitable” dates.
Incident: NSW Policeman sent intimate photos from arrested woman’s phone to other officers via Facebook | SMH
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.
Incident: Fisheries Qld blames bad update for password ‘fault’ | iTnews
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.
Incident: Yet another Qld cop charged with hacking,Β One of four to face charges since December | iTnews
TheΒ 33-year-old has been charged with βComputer Hacking and Misuseβ after allegedly accessing the Queensland Police Service computer systems and information inappropriately.
Incident: Hack spam sent via Australian hazard alert service | iTnews
Early Warning Network, a NSW company providing weather, fire and other alerts to councils and others, had a login compromised and used by an unknown party to make threats about customer security.
OAIC Data Breach Analysis
