Australian Racing Industry Ransomware Attack, 05 Jun 2025: Victorian based RISE Racing confirms Sarcoma ransomware attack. Reports indicate that 1.6GB of sensitive data was stolen, including: Banking details, financial records, participant personal information and operational data related to the racing industry.
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Australian Racing Club Ransomware Attack, 16 June 2024: The Victoria Racing Club has been hit by ransomware. Medusa group claiming credit for gaining access to the organisation’s network stealing 128.1GB of data and demanding US$700,000.
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Australian Clubs Privacy Breach, 02 May 2024: Cybercrime detectives arrest man following alleged data breach involving more than 1 million NSW clubs customer records. ID Support NSW confirmed more than 17 licensed clubs across NSW and the ACT have been implicated in the data breach.
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Australian Football Breach, 1 February 2024: Football Australia data breach reportedly exposes contracts, passports, and ticket information. Plain-text digital “keys” in the publicly accessible code, access to 127 digital storage containers.
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Australian Football Cyber Attack, 16 November 2023: Port Adelaide Football Club Hackers post Port files online. Member data is believed not to be compromised though members should be wary of communications from the club.
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Australian Email Privacy Breach September 2020: Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron to be questioned by Office of Australian Information Commissioner after an email data breach leaking the personal details of 617 members, including millionaire business owners, doctors and barristers.
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Australian Privacy Hacked May 2020: AFL fan website Big Footy data breach exposed private details of up to 100,000 users and 70 million records online, including private conversations between users.
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Australia Social Media Hack October 2019: Australian Cricketer Shane Watson has apologised to his social media followers after inadvertently posting a number of X-Rated photos after his Twitter and Instagram accounts were hacked.
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: June 05 2018 Southport Sharks CEO Dean Bowtell...
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