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Incident: NSW Government QR Code data leak exposes over 500,000 sensitive locations | Daily Mail Australia

by Steven Kirby | Feb 15, 2022 | 08.02.03 Handling of assets, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2022, Confidentiality, Daily Mail Australia, Data Breach, Privacy Breach, State Government, Unintended Disclosure Incident | 0 |

Australian Government Privacy Breach February 2022: NSW Government QR Code data leak exposes over 500,000 sensitive locations. Address’s included Defence sites, bombing ranges and domestic violence shelters.

Incident: NSW government casual recruiter suffers ransomware hit | ZDNet

by Steven Kirby | Dec 17, 2021 | 12.06 Technical vulnerability management, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, Confidentiality, New South Wales, Privacy Breach, SaaS - Software as a Service, Services, State Government, ZDNet | 0 |

Australian Ransomware Incident December 2021: NSW government casual recruiter Finite Recruitment suffers Conti ransomware hit. Attackers claimed to have stolen more than 300GB of financial and personal data.

Incident: Cyber criminals force shutdown of NSW budgeting system | Australian Financial Review (AFR)

by Steven Kirby | Dec 16, 2021 | 12.06 Technical vulnerability management, Australian Financial Review (AFR), Australian InfoSec Incidents 2021, Availability, New South Wales, SaaS - Software as a Service, Services, State Government | 0 |

Australian Cyber Security Incident December 2021: Cyber criminals force shutdown of New South Wales’ Prime/Oracle based budgeting system. The problem is part of a worldwide vulnerability identified in Log4j.

Report: NSW Government agency’s 49-day hack shows need for cyber security beef up: report on 2017 incident | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | May 2, 2018 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incident, Email, Government Agency, Government Incident, Hacked, New South Wales, State Government | 0 |

Australian Information Security Report: May 2 2018 It took one NSW Government agency 49 days to...

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Incident: NSW Government QR Code data leak exposes over 500,000 sensitive locations | Daily Mail Australia

Incident: NSW government casual recruiter suffers ransomware hit | ZDNet

Incident: Cyber criminals force shutdown of NSW budgeting system | Australian Financial Review (AFR)

Report: NSW Government agency’s 49-day hack shows need for cyber security beef up: report on 2017 incident | ABC News (Australia)

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