Australian Transport Ransomware Attack, 13 November 2024: Ransomware gang Akira claims breach of Queensland-based transport company Followmont Transport. Akira “We will upload 230Gb of data including NDAs, passports, lot,’s of driver licenses, medical documents, detailed financial information.
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Australian Travel Privacy Breach, 03 May 2024: Qantas confirms technology issue caused data breach that exposed personal information of customers. A caching issue resulted in the wrong information updating on customers’ apps.
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Australian Ports Cyber Attack, 11 November 2023: Major Australian port operator DP World Australia shuts down amid cyber security incident, impacting goods in and out of the country. Operator failed to fix a critical IT vulnerability; the patch had been released over a month earlier.
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Australian Automotive Incident 01 June 2023: Toyota does U-turn, confirms thousands of Australian customers hit by latest data breach. Access key was publicly available on GitHub for almost five year.
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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 Privacy Breach May 2022: Transport for NSW hit by second cyber attack in less than 18 months. An online application used by vehicle examiners to conduct roadworthiness inspections in NSW has been struck by a cyber attack.
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Australian Transport Data Breach February 2021: Transport for NSW data stolen in Accellion breach. Some information had been exfiltrated from its systems before the attack was noticed and halted.
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Australian Privacy Breach April 2020: Email bungle at Australian Traffic Network seeking jobkeeper payments exposes staff’s personal details. Names, addresses and birth dates of more than 100 people shared in privacy breach
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Australian Ransomware Attack March 2020: Australian freight forwarding and logistics firm Henning Harders has been hit by Windows ransomware, with the company saying that customer data may have been accessed
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Australian Privacy Breach February 2020: Yarra Trams data breach, 91 commuters’ email addresses exposed by careless email
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Australian Transport Malware Attack February 2020: Toll Group shuts IT systems after ‘cyber security incident’. Ransomware is believed to have infected as many as 1000 servers, including Active Directory
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Australian Cyber Stalking November 2019: Hobart man pleads guilty to stalking and controlling ex-girlfriend’s car with his computer. He downloaded and set up an online application that gave him control over the stop and start function of his ex-lover’s car and allowed him to track her movements.
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August 15 2019 Privacy Breach: Just a few taps on and off, and a couple of tweets — that’s all it would take for a hacker or stalker to identify you and track down your movements with a myki.
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NZ Cyber Incident August 09 2019: Air New Zealand is telling Airpoints members some of their personal information has been caught in a phishing scam.
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A malicious cyber attack at Geelong Port has potentially exposed sensitive details of hundreds of customers, including driver’s licence numbers, that could be used to set up illegitimate bank accounts
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Mar 5, 2019 NZ Incident: NZ Transport Agency’s cyber security under scrutiny after 82 data breaches.
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Mar 5, 2019 NZ Incident: NZ Transport Agency’s cyber security under scrutiny after 82 data breaches.
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: July 12 2018 A company that issues Aviation...
Read MoreZ has admitted a major security fault that potentially allowed access to business accounts and personal details. The problem hit the company’s Z Card Online system, which allows people to manage fuel accounts, mostly for...
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Australian Information Security Incident Reported: March 14 2018 Overseas hackers breached the...
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