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It’s possible to leak PII describing 5.7 million people without breaching privacy rules
The Department of Education in Victoria, Australia, notified parents that attackers gained access to a database containing the personal information of current and former students. [...]
Regulators Say FIIG Lacked Basic Security Measures to Prevent 2023 BreachThe Australian financial regulator has filed a lawsuit against FIIG Securities Limited, accusing the leading investment and financing company of having inadequate cybersecurity controls to stop a threat actor from stealing the confidential personal information of 18,000 customers.
Australia-based Genea said it is investigating the cyber incident to determine whether any personal data was accessed by an unauthorized third party
An Australian man has been charged with running a fake Wi-Fi access point during a domestic flight with an aim to steal user credentials and data
Evil twin Wi-Fi access points mimicked legitimate networks to capture personal data from unsuspecting victims who mistakenly connected to them
Australian telco Optus allegedly left redundant website with poor access controls online for years The data breach at Australian telco Optus, which saw over nine million customers' personal information exposed, has been blamed on a coding error that broke API access controls, and was left in place for years.…
Allegations fly regarding unpaid contractors and iffy infosec Over a million records describing Australians who visited local pubs and clubs have apparently been posted online.…
Customer Accounts Were Secured by MFA, But Contractor's Credentials Exposed DataAustralian telecom company Tangerine is blaming the compromise of a third-party contractor's credentials for exposing personal information of 232,000 customers, which had been stored in a legacy database. The breach exposed customers' names, birthdates, mobile numbers, addresses and account numbers.
Japanese car maker Nissan is investigating a cyberattack that targeted its systems in Australia and New Zealand, which may have let hackers access personal information. [...]
Pizza Hut Australia is sending data breach notifications to customers, warning that a cyberattack allowed hackers to access their personal information. [...]
Latitude blames a 'major vendor' for its woes. Is that a vendor? A cloud? Whoever they are, they're in trouble Latitude Financial has blamed a supplier for leaking creds that caused vast PII leak Australian outfit Latitude Financial has taken itself offline, and even stopped serving customers, while it tries to clean up an attack on its systems.…
Australian health insurer Medibank today confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 million of its current and former customers were accessed following a ransomware incident
Australia's Medibank uses a government-approved Band-Aid to cover a gaping 10-milion-record wound Australian health insurer Medibank – which spent October discovering a security incident was worse than it first thought – has announced it will not pay a ransom to attackers that made off with personal info describing nearly ten million customers.…
Australian health insurance firm Medibank on Wednesday disclosed that the personal information of all of its customers had been unauthorizedly accessed following a recent ransomware attack
Australian insurance firm Medibank has confirmed that hackers accessed all of its customers' personal data and a large amount of health claims data during a recent ransomware attack. [...]
Data retention requirements to be considered alongside infosec failings Australian carrier Optus's recent data breach will be investigated by two regulators, the double trouble likely an indicator of the nation's displeasure at the incident – which saw almost ten million locals' personal data exposed online.…
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has arrested a 19-year-old teen from Sydney for allegedly attempting to leverage the data leaked following the Optus data breach late last month to extort victims
Australian telecom giant Optus on Monday confirmed that nearly 2.1 million of its current and former customers suffered a leak of their personal information and at least one form of identification number as a result of a data breach late last month
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced today the launch of Operation Guardian which will ensure that more than 10,000 customers who had their personal info leaked in the Optus data breach will get priority protection against fraud attempts. [...]