Category: Retail

Incident: Specsavers – Adelaide optometrist struck off register after tampering with hundreds of glasses prescriptions | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Sep 13, 2020 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Insider Threat, Integrity, Medical and Health Care, Retail | 0 |

Australian Insider Threat September 2020. Specsavers – Adelaide optometrist struck off register after tampering with hundreds of glasses prescriptions. Investigations revealed somebody had “systematically” altered the prescriptions using the optometrist’s login details.

Incident: Australian company Jands appears to have been hit by Windows ransomware | iTWire

by Steven Kirby | Sep 1, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Availability, Confidentiality, Data Breach, Entertainment and Events, iTWire, New South Wales, Privacy, Privacy Breach, Ransomware, Retail | 0 |

Australian Ransomware Data Breach September 2020: Australian company Jands appears to have been hit by Windows ransomware. NetWalker encrypted and stole financial data, customer details and other miscellaneous data.

Incident: Sydney Tools sues competitor Total Tools over alleged email hacking | SmartCompany

by Steven Kirby | Aug 21, 2020 | Access Control, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Confidentiality, Email, Insider Threat, New South Wales, Retail, SmartCompany, Unauthorised Access | 0 |

Australian Offboarding Fail August 2020: Sydney Tools sues competitor Total Tools over alleged email hacking. Confirmed it is suing competitor Total Tools over an alleged email hacking.

Incident: Sydney sports store IN SPORTS hit by Windows REvil ransomware | iTWire

by Steven Kirby | May 20, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, iTWire, Ransomware, Retail | 0 |

Australian Ransomware Attack May 2020: Sydney sports speciality store chain IN SPORTS has been hit by the REvil ransomware that attacks Windows systems and a limited set of data from the company has been published on the dark web by the attackers.

Incident: Australian wool sales stopped by ransomware attack | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Feb 27, 2020 | Agriculture and Farming, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, iTnews, Malware, Ransomware, Retail | 0 |

Australian Cyber Attack February 2020: Australian wool sales stopped by ransomware attack, major wool exchange supplier hit by a ransomware attack that encrypted its production databases.

Incident: Victorian man arrested over multiple DDoS attacks | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Oct 29, 2019 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Cyber Resilience, DDoS Distributed Denial of Service, iTnews, Law & Legal, Retail, Telcommunications and Internet Service Provider, Victoria | 0 |

Australian DDoS Attack Arrest October 2019: Victorian man arrested over multiple DDoS attacks against a telecommunications business and a large shopping complex.

Incident: 7-Eleven fuel app data breach exposes users’ personal details | The Guardian

by Steven Kirby | Oct 25, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, DDoS Distributed Denial of Service, Mobile App, Privacy Breach, Retail, The Guardian | 0 |

Australian App Privacy Breach October 2019: 7-Eleven fuel app data breach exposes users’ personal details, users were able to see other customers’ data, including names, dates of birth and mobile numbers.

NZ Incident: Auckland Asics store screens hacked to show pornography | Stuff.co.nz

by Steven Kirby | Sep 29, 2019 | 🥝 New Zealand, 🥝 NZ Incidents, Hacked, Pornography, Retail, Stuff.co.nz | 0 |

NZ Hacked 29 September 2019: Promotional screens on a central Auckland Asics store were hacked to show pornographic content on Sunday morning.

Incident: TGI Fridays Delivers Customer Indigestion Over Data Exposure | Threatpost

by Steven Kirby | Aug 29, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Configuration, Data Breach, Privacy Breach, Retail, Threatpost | 0 |

August 29 2019 Australian Privacy Breach: TGI Fridays Australia restaurant chain warns loyalty reward program member of exposed data incident – Unsecured S3 bucket.

Incident: Specsavers says Qld customers’ private medical information may have been compromised | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Jun 19, 2019 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Medical and Health Care, Physical Security, Privacy Breach, Queensland, Retail | 0 |

Eyewear giant Specsavers has admitted that the personal information of some clients in regional Queensland is missing.

Incident: Aussie fashion e-tailer Princess Polly suffers data breach | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jun 1, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Credit Card, Data Breach, Hacked, iTnews, Privacy Breach, Retail | 0 |

Australian Data Breach June 2019: Australian online fashion e-tailer Princess Polly suffered a data breach which may have exposed customers’ personal and payment information to an “unidentified third party”.

Incident: Australian Auto Trade Show Sparks International Incident | Auto Expert John Cadogan

by Steven Kirby | Apr 24, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Breach, Retail, YouTube | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: April 24 2019 This is the funnies and most...

Incident: Credit cards cancelled as Kathmandu reveals online store hacked | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Mar 13, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Credit Card, Data Breach, iTnews, Privacy Breach, Retail | 0 |

ASX-listed global outdoors wear and equipment retailer Kathmandu has disclosed it suffered a data breach during the peak post-holidays sales period that saw customers’ personal and payments information captured.

Incident: Bunnings exposed staff performance database | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Feb 6, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Breach, Data Handling, Insider Threat, iTnews, Privacy, Privacy Breach, Retail | 0 |

Bunnings has confirmed it notified the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner of a data breach, after an individual staffer set up an employee performance monitoring database on his home computer and exposed it to the internet.

Incident: Big W customer data leaked due to printer repair mishap | SmartCompany

by Steven Kirby | Dec 20, 2018 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2018, Data Handling, Physical Security, Privacy, Retail, SmartCompany | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: December 20 2018 A Big W worker accidentally...

Incident: Woolworths has tightened security around its loyalty program after 130 accounts were fraudulently accessed | NineMSN

by Steven Kirby | Sep 13, 2018 | 9 News, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2018, MSN Australia, Password Management, Retail | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: September 13 2018 Woolworths has tightened...

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Published: April 3, 2021 - 10:51 am
APRA brings cyber security of broader banking ecosystem into focus
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Published: April 3, 2021 - 10:51 am
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Published: April 3, 2021 - 10:16 am