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Incident: Millions of Australians’ sensitive medical images, data left openly accessible | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Sep 20, 2019 | API Security, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Breach, iTnews, Medical and Health Care, Privacy Breach | 0 |

September 20 2019 Australian Medical Privacy Breach: Millions of Australians’ sensitive medical images, data left openly accessible. Australian servers alone leaked 50,000 sets of data comprising 2.5 million accounts.

Incident: ‘Detailed and graphic’: Clinic faxes patients’ highly sensitive medical histories to wrong number | SMH

by Steven Kirby | Sep 18, 2019 | API Security, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Handling, Medical and Health Care, Privacy Breach, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald, Victoria | 0 |

September 18 2019 Australian Medical Privacy Breach: A Melbourne medical clinic has been inadvertently faxing highly sensitive patient details including mental health and family medical histories to a Greenvale man for at least two years.

Incident: Data breach may affect 50,000 Australian university students using ‘Get’ app | The Guardian

by Steven Kirby | Sep 10, 2019 | API Security, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Breach, Education and Training, Entertainment and Events, Privacy Breach, The Guardian | 0 |

September 10 2019 Australian Privacy Breach: Estimated 50,000 students using events app Get, previously known as Qnect, may have had their personal data exposed online.

NZ Incident: Data breach after lax New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) security | Stuff.co.nz

by Steven Kirby | Sep 9, 2019 | API Security, Configuration, Data Breach, 🥝 NZ Incidents, Federal Government, New Zealand, Stuff.co.nz | 0 |

Privacy Breach 09 September 2019: The NZ Transport Agency admits to a technology botch up leaving what was meant to be a highly secure data key wide open.

Incident: Aussie banks warn customers after fresh PayID data breach | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Aug 22, 2019 | API Security, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Banking and Finance, Data Breach, iTnews, Privacy Breach | 0 |

August 21 2019: Banks have started warning customers of a fresh data breach involving PayID records that was reported to new payments platform overseer NPP Australia. Client-side technical issue’ blamed for latest disclosure.

Incident: ‘Shocking’ myki privacy breach for millions of users in data release | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Aug 15, 2019 | ABC News (Australia), API Security, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Privacy Breach, State Government, Transport and Logistics, Victoria | 0 |

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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Incident: Millions of Australians’ sensitive medical images, data left openly accessible | iTnews

Incident: ‘Detailed and graphic’: Clinic faxes patients’ highly sensitive medical histories to wrong number | SMH

Incident: Data breach may affect 50,000 Australian university students using ‘Get’ app | The Guardian

NZ Incident: Data breach after lax New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) security | Stuff.co.nz

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