September

Incident: Specsavers – Adelaide optometrist struck off register after tampering with hundreds of glasses prescriptions | ABC News (Australia)

September 13, 2020 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Insider Threat, Integrity, Medical and Health Care, Retail |
Incident: Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron to be questioned by Office of Australian Information Commissioner after data breach | The Courier Mail

September 11, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Confidentiality, Email, Queensland, Sporting and Recreation, The Courier |

August

Incident: ASIC sues financial services company for repeated hacks | iTnews

August 21, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Banking and Finance, Data Breach, Hacked, iTnews, Privacy Breach, Ransomware |
Incident: NSW police to investigate after leaking emails of people who complained about pepper spray at Black Lives Matter rally | The Guardian

August 19, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Email, New South Wales, Police and Law Enforcement, Privacy Breach, State Government, The Guardian |
Incident: Seek apologises for ‘internal technical issue’ that exposed user details | ZDNet

August 12, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Education and Training, Privacy Breach, ZDNet |
Quote: Michael Meade “A false sense of security is the only kind there is.”

August 5, 2020 | Featured, Quotes |
Incident: Regis Healthcare loses data in Maze ransomware infection | iTnews

August 3, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Breach Response, Data Breach, Data Loss, iTnews, Medical and Health Care, Privacy Breach, Ransomware |
Incident: ‘Massive messaging storm’ takes out Telstra’s DNS infrastructure | iTnews

August 2, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Denial of Service, iTnews, Network, Outage, Telcommunications and Internet Service Provider |

July

June

May

April

March

February

Incident: Australian wool sales stopped by ransomware attack | iTnews

February 27, 2020 | Agriculture and Farming, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, iTnews, Malware, Ransomware, Retail |
Incident: Car auction house Manheim suffers significant malware attack

February 20, 2020 | Auctions and Exchanges, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Malware |
Incident: Yarra Trams data breach: Commuters’ email addresses exposed | Brisbane Times

February 3, 2020 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Brisbane Times, Data Handling, Email, Privacy, Privacy Breach, Transport and Logistics, Victoria |
Incident: Toll Group shuts IT systems after ‘cyber security incident’ | iTnews

February 3, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, iTnews, Malware, Transport and Logistics |

January

December

November

October

September

NZ Incident: Auckland Asics store screens hacked to show pornography | Stuff.co.nz

September 29, 2019 | 🥝 New Zealand, 🥝 NZ Incidents, Hacked, Pornography, Retail, Stuff.co.nz |
Incident: Millions of Australians’ sensitive medical images, data left openly accessible | iTnews

September 20, 2019 | API Security, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Breach, iTnews, Medical and Health Care, Privacy Breach |
More Oz and NZ Security News – Flipboard Magazine

September 19, 2019 | Featured, kirbyIDau News |
Incident: ‘Detailed and graphic’: Clinic faxes patients’ highly sensitive medical histories to wrong number | SMH

September 18, 2019 | API Security, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Handling, Medical and Health Care, Privacy Breach, SMH - The Sydney Morning Herald, Victoria |
Incident: Online fraud syndicate – Woman arrested and millions allegedly siphoned | 9 News

September 17, 2019 | 9 News, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Banking and Finance, Cyber Fraud, CyberCrime, Identity Theft |
Quote: Stephane Nappo “A weak digital security can jeopardize a robust physical safety.”

September 15, 2019 | Quotes |
Incident: Data breach may affect 50,000 Australian university students using ‘Get’ app | The Guardian

September 10, 2019 | API Security, Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Breach, Education and Training, Entertainment and Events, Privacy Breach, The Guardian |
NZ Incident: Data breach after lax New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) security | Stuff.co.nz

September 9, 2019 | API Security, Configuration, Data Breach, 🥝 New Zealand, 🥝 NZ Incidents, Federal Government, Stuff.co.nz |
Incident: Australian Attorney-General Christian Porter’s office in privacy breach over draft religious discrimination bill email | The Australian

September 3, 2019 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2019, Data Breach, Data Handling, Email, Federal Government, Privacy Breach, The Australian, Unintended Disclosure Incident |

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