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Incident: DFAT Stranded Aussies’ identities exposed again | The Canberra Times

by Steven Kirby | Oct 28, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Confidentiality, Data Handling, Email, Federal Government, Government Agency, Privacy, The Canberra Times, User Error | 0 |

Australian Government Privacy Breach Again October 2020: DFAT Stranded Aussies’ identities exposed again. The identities of Australians stranded overseas have been accidentally exposed for the third time in as many months.

Incident: DFAT admits email addresses of almost 3,000 Australians stranded overseas released in breach | The Guardian

by Steven Kirby | Sep 30, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Confidentiality, Data Handling, Email, Federal Government, Government Agency, Privacy, The Guardian, User Error | 0 |

Australian Government Privacy Breach September 2020: DFAT admits email addresses of almost 3,000 Australians stranded overseas released in breach. Addressees were mistakenly listed in the ‘to’ field, rather than ‘bcc’, making them visible to other recipients.

Incident: Psychologists’ home details posted online in HBF breach | The West Australian

by Steven Kirby | Dec 19, 2018 | Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2018, Data Handling, Medical and Health Care, Privacy, The West Australian, User Error, Western Australia | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: December 19 2018 WA’s biggest health insurer...

Incident: CommBank sent 650 customer emails to wrong domain | iTWire

by Steven Kirby | Jun 2, 2018 | APP Australian Privacy Principles, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2018, Banking and Finance, Data Handling, Email, iTWire, Privacy, Privacy Breach, User Error | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: June 02 2018 About 10,000 customers of the...

Incident: OAIC investigating Flight Centre customer data leak | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Aug 22, 2017 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2017, Data Breach, Data Handling, iTnews, Privacy, Privacy Breach, Travel and Accommodation, User Error | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: August 21 2017 Travel agency Flight Centre is...

Incident: Another child protection privacy breach names more than 30 kids in care | The Standard

by Steven Kirby | Jan 24, 2017 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2017, Data Breach, Data Handling, Email, In the Press, User Error, Victoria | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: January 24 2017 Victoria’s child...

Incident: Victorian Game Authority inadvertently emailed customer data to hunters | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Jan 17, 2017 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2017, Data Handling, Email, Privacy, Privacy Breach, State Government, User Error, Victoria, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: January 17 2017 HUNTERS in Victoria will no...

Incident: Personal details of thousands of residents revealed by Melbourne council in data breach | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Nov 11, 2016 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Data Handling, Email, Local Government, Medical and Health Care, Privacy, Privacy Breach, User Error, Victoria | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: November 11 2016 A local council in...

Incident: NSW Medical Council finds out PDF redaction is hard, the hard way | The Register

by Steven Kirby | Jan 17, 2016 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Data Handling, Information Redaction, Medical and Health Care, New South Wales, The Register, Unintended Disclosure Incident, User Error | 0 |

Jan 17, 2016. Australian public sector agencies have a persistent problem trying to redact PDFs: this time, the guilty party is the Medical Council of NSW.

Incident: A Canberra psychology clinic accidentally reveals clients’ personal details in email | The Canberra Times

by Steven Kirby | Jan 15, 2016 | Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Data Handling, Email, Medical and Health Care, Privacy, Privacy Breach, The Canberra Times, Unintended Disclosure Incident, User Error | 0 |

Jan 15, 2016. A Canberra psychology clinic has apologised after it accidentally shared personal details of hundreds of patients in a group email.

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Category: User Error

Incident: DFAT Stranded Aussies’ identities exposed again | The Canberra Times

Incident: DFAT admits email addresses of almost 3,000 Australians stranded overseas released in breach | The Guardian

Incident: Psychologists’ home details posted online in HBF breach | The West Australian

Incident: CommBank sent 650 customer emails to wrong domain | iTWire

Incident: OAIC investigating Flight Centre customer data leak | iTnews

Incident: Another child protection privacy breach names more than 30 kids in care | The Standard

Incident: Victorian Game Authority inadvertently emailed customer data to hunters | ZDNet

Incident: Personal details of thousands of residents revealed by Melbourne council in data breach | ABC News (Australia)

Incident: NSW Medical Council finds out PDF redaction is hard, the hard way | The Register

Incident: A Canberra psychology clinic accidentally reveals clients’ personal details in email | The Canberra Times

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