Australian Retail DDoS Attack, 13 December 2024: New South Wales: Bondi Markets was allegedly taken down in a DDoS attack, making the organisation the latest victim of a wider RipperSec threat group DDoS campaign against Australian companies.
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Australian Retail Ransomware Attack, 15 November 2024: The Sarcoma ransomware gang has claimed Australian office furniture supplier Micon Office National as a victim on its darknet leak site. Potentially 34 gigabytes of data exfiltrated from the company and is threatening to publish the data within 11 days.
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Australian Retail Email Error, 23 April 2024: Personal data of ‘thousands’ of Hungry Jack’s staff exposed in internal leak. An email to 198 staff from the training and communication portal, included an attached spreadsheet of staff information.
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Australian Retailer Ransomware Breach, 15 January 2024: Qilin ransomware gang has shared 37.6 gigabytes of data belonging to Victorian print music company Hal Leonard Australia. Hal Leonard given a week to pay an undisclosed sum of money for ransom.
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Australian Travel Agency Breach, 11 January 2024: Melbourne travel agency Inspiring Vacations, exposes customer data after leaving database publicly accessible. The leaked data, includes passport images, travel visa certificates, travel itineraries, and partial credit card numbers.
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Australian Retail Breach, 09 January 2024: Australian retailer The Iconic, promises refunds after a spate of fraudulent transactions on customer accounts. While not directly hacked, the unauthorised third party used a technique known as ‘credential stuffing’.
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Australian Retail Privacy Breach, 08 September 2023: Dymocks warns customers of data breach after account information leaked on dark web. Customers’ addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and membership details may have been compromised.
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Australian Fastfood Company Hacked, 06 September 2023: Pizza Hut Australia leaks one million customers’ details, claims ShinyHunters hacking groups. Unauthorised access gained to companies Amazon Web Services buckets claiming to have exfiltrated 30 million customer order records.
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Australian Retail Third-Party Breach, 15 March 2023: Coles confirms its customers impacted by Latitude Financial data breach. Coles says it has not been informed of how many of its customers have been impacted, the data dates back as far as 2005.
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Australian Retail Data Breach February 2023: The Good Guys customers possibly affected by data breach at former third-party provider My Rewards. Up to 1.5 million loyalty program customers hacked which is believed to have occurred in August 202
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Australian Cyber Attack February 2023: Black and White Cabs booking service offline after cyber attack. Passengers and drivers have been left waiting as the booking system remains locked days after the breach.
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Australian Retail Data Breach Incident October 2022: Wine dealer Vinomofo data breach: 500,000 customers at risk after wine dealer hit by cyber-attack. At risk of exposure are the names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and genders of customers.
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Australian Retail Cyber Incident July 2022: New security alert issued to all Woolworths Everyday Rewards members. Fraudsters have likely obtained members’ login credentials and account details from online scams or other sources.
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Australian Retailer Data Breach May 2022: Australian company Amart Furniture has 100k warranty customers details breached. Database hosted on AWS was the source of the information.
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Australian Privacy Breach January 2022: Bunnings private customer data exposed in data breach. Names, phone numbers and email addresses have been exposed via a third-party website FlexBooker.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Energy company Origin has confirmed there has been unauthorised access to and disclosure of some customers' data. In a statement released via the ASX, … [...]
Origin Energy has confirmed the personal information of some of its customers has been stolen in a suspected cyber hack. The energy giant said in a … [...]
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Origin Energy, Australia's biggest power provider, is investigating a suspected cyber attack affecting up to 5 million Australians. A hacker calling himself John Doe claims to have stolen personal data [...]
Origin Energy says an investigation has been launched into a potential hacking incident with reports two million customers could have been affected. The company has 4.8 million customers. The nation's [...]
One of Australia's largest energy companies, Origin Energy, says it is investigating a security breach that "may have" affected customer data. "Origin … [...]
Origin Energy is investigating a potential cyber hack that may have compromised the data of some customers. In a statement, the major energy provider … [...]