Australian Energy Privacy Breach, 15 May 2024: Victorian energy provide Sumo Energy slammed by data breach, as energy and internet customers have details leaked. Personal details of approximately 40,000 customers were compromised, including approximately 3,000 Australian passport numbers.
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Australian Data Handling Incident December 2022: Telstra apologises for accidentally publishing data of thousands of customers online. Names, numbers and addresses of some unlisted customers released online.
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Australia Telstra Provider Breach May 2021: Telstra service provider hit by cyber attack as hackers claim SIM card information stolen. Hackers have claimed they have gained access to “tens of thousands” of SIM cards after a cyber attack against an Australian telecom firm
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Australian Telco Outage April 2021: Vodafone Australia hit by nationwide 4G outage. Mobile data, voice services impacted for 10 hours.
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Australian Telco Outage August 2020: ‘Massive messaging storm’ takes out Telstra’s DNS infrastructure, walks back on earlier claims of denial-of-service attack.
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Australian Medical Privacy Breach July 2020: ‘Unforgivable’: Privacy breach exposed sensitive details of WA’s virus fight on a public website. The breach also impacted St John Ambulance, the Department of Fire and Emergency Services and the Department of Justice. The leak was traced back to Vodafone pager service.
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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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Australian Privacy Breach Incident October 2019: Tens of thousands of Australian Optus customers have had their mobile phone numbers and addresses mistakenly published online.
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Google has suspended an email alerting system in New Zealand following criticism by the government for publishing suppressed details of a murder case, the company said on Friday.
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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.
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 27 2018 Telstra customer stumbles across...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: May 31 2018 An onslaught of 1800 suspected...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: March 22 2018 A flaw in medical software used...
Read MoreThe federal government has promised to introduce a national ‘consumer data right’ into law allowing consumers open access to their banking, energy, and telco data next year. Source: New laws will give Aussies access...
Read MoreTwo major Australian brands, Telstra and Commonwealth Bank, have been targeted by scammers in a bid to dupe users into downloading malware to their computers or giving up credit card details. Source: Telstra, CommBank targeted...
Read MoreThe Australian Communications and Media Authority has fined ISP TPG Internet $360,000 over the violation of the Spam Act 2003. Source: iTWire – ACMA hits TPG with $360,000 fine over spam
Read MoreDon’t click “View my bill” if you receive these emails from Telstra or EnergyAustralia. Source: Fake Telstra and EnergyAustralia email bills spread banking trojans – CSO | The Resource for Data Security...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: October 24 2017 Regional internet registry for...
Read MoreMembers of a New Zealand online tech community discovered a potential vulnerability in Vodafone New Zealand’s ‘My Vodafone’ platform. Source: SecurityBrief NZ – Vodafone NZ customer finds major loophone in ‘My...
Read MoreTelstra suffered a domain name server (DNS) outage in NSW with a wide range of users reporting connectivity issues beginning around 5am. Update, 9.57am: Telstra said the DNS issue has been resolved. Source: Telstra’s NSW...
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