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Incident: Cyber scare shuts down hospital IT systems in rural north-east Victoria | Brisbane Times

by Steven Kirby | Oct 23, 2019 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Brisbane Times, Malware, Medical and Health Care, State Government, Victoria, Virus Incident | 0 |

Australian Virus/Malware Incident October 2019: Australian Virus/Malware Incident October 2019: A number of rural Victorian health services in the state’s north-east were forced to shut down their IT systems due to a malware virus.

Incident: Data breach rocks major Queensland sports club | QT (Queensland times)

by Steven Kirby | Jun 5, 2018 | Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2018, Data Breach, Privacy Breach, QT (Queesnland Times), Queensland, Sporting and Recreation, Virus Incident | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: June 05 2018 Southport Sharks CEO Dean Bowtell...

Incident: WA parliament breached by undetected virus | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Feb 19, 2016 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Business Continuity, iTnews, State Government, Virus Incident, Western Australia | 0 |

February 19, 2016. A cybersecurity breach that led to a shut down of communications in the West Australian parliament on Tuesday night has been blamed on an undiscovered virus.

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Incident: Thousands of identifiable Northern Territory patient health files sent to overseas-based software vendor in government data breach | ABC News (Australia)

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Category: Virus Incident

Incident: Cyber scare shuts down hospital IT systems in rural north-east Victoria | Brisbane Times

Incident: Data breach rocks major Queensland sports club | QT (Queensland times)

Incident: WA parliament breached by undetected virus | iTnews

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