Fire Rescue Victoria – December 2022
Fire Rescue Victoria investigating security incident
Cyber attack cripples Fire Rescue Victoria
TPG Telecom – December 2022
TPG Telecom joins list of hacked Australian companies, shares slide
Telstra – December 2022
Telstra blames privacy breach on ‘database misalignment’
Telstra explains how internal data breach exposed more than 130,000 customers’ details
Telstra apologises after customer data breach
Telstra slips up as details of 130,000 customers go online
Telstra privacy breach sees customer details made public
Twitter – November 2022
More than 5 million Twitter users at risk after alleged security breach
WhatsApp – November 2022
WhatsApp denies data leak as company hit by anonymous online threat
The Smith Family – November 2022
The Smith Family warns supporters of stolen personal data amid hack on Australian charity
Children’s charity The Smith Family hit by cyberattack
Harcourts – November 2022
Harcourts Melbourne City real estate agency advises customers of data breach
Victorian Government | PNORS Technology Group – November 2022
Victoria has ordered an investigation into a potential data breach. Here’s what happened.
BWX (Flora & Fauna) – November 2022
Credit card details likely exposed in skincare online shopping hack
AFP – October 2022
AFP classified documents hacked in data leak, exposing agents fighting drug cartels
Vinomofo – October 2022
Online wine seller Vinomofo hit in major data breach
Vinomofo data breach: 500,000 customers at risk after wine dealer hit by cyber-attack
Medibank – October 2022
Medibank admits personal data stolen in cyber attack
Medibank Group detects cyberattack, takes several services offline as a precaution
Medibank receives contact from hackers
Woolworths MyDeal – October 2022
Woolworths MyDeal becomes latest target of cyber attack. What information was leaked and what can you do if you’re affected?
Woolworths says data of 2.2 million customers of its MyDeal website has been exposed
North Face – September 2022
200,000 North Face accounts hacked in credential stuffing attack
Uber – September 2022
Teen hacker gets into Uber, announces data breach on chat software
Uber investigating ‘cyber security incident’ after report of breach
Uber Investigating Massive Security Breach by Alleged Teen Hacker
Uber in ‘unforgivable’ security breach
TikTok – September 2022
TikTok Hacked, Denies Security Breach Allegations
TikTok denies security breach after hackers claim to have records of more than a billion users
LastPass – August 2022
Password manager company LastPass reports major security breach
LastPass was hacked, but it says no user data was compromised
Facebook – August 2022
A Facebook glitch has affected users worldwide. So, what went wrong and has there been a data breach?
WA Health – August 2022
WA Health Department apologises for monkeypox data breach of passengers on flight from Doha to Perth
Nurse responsible for major monkeypox data breach in Perth
Health Department under fire as personal details of monkeypox plane passengers sent out in email
Twitter – August 2022
Twitter confirms personal details of millions of account holders compromised
Twitter says zero-day bug leaked account data
More than 5 million Twitter accounts impacted by recent data breach
University of Western Australia – August 2022
Student details, photos exposed in University of WA data breach
University of Western Australia Student Details Exposed in Data Breach
University of Western Australia Confirms Student Details Exposed in Data Breach
University of Western Australia: Police charge man over major UWA data breach
Neopets – July 2022
A Hacker Is Trying to Sell Data on 69 Million Neopets Users
The Hackers Who Breached Neopets Were Inside Its IT Systems for 18 Months
Uber – July 2022
Uber confesses it covered up a huge data breach
Uber settles with DOJ for failing to disclose breach that exposed 57 million users’ data
Perth Festival, Black Swan State Theatre Company – July 2022
Perth Festival, Black Swan Theatre and other arts organisations hit by major data breach
Victorian Government – July 2022
Students, travellers and staff exposed as Hotel Quarantine data breach revealed
Woolworths – July 2022
Woolworths denies data breach after outraged shoppers claim Everyday Rewards hacked
China Police – July 2022
Private information of more than 100 Australians exposed amid huge China police data leak
Deakin University – July 2022
Hackers target Deakin Uni
Deakin University reveals breach of 47,000 students’ details
Data on Almost 47,000 Students Exposed in Deakin Uni Breach
AMD – July 2022
AMD is investigating a serious potential data breach
AMD Is Investigating a Potential Data Breach Allegedly Caused by Weak Passwords
OpenSea – July 2022
OpenSea customers warned to stay on high alert for phishing attacks
NFT giant OpenSea reports major email data breach
OpenSea users’ email addresses leaked in data breach
NFTs Have Been Stolen From OpenSea Users
iCare – June 2022
iCare data breach due to ‘human error’, agency says
iCare launches systems review after 193,000 claimants affected by privacy breach
iCare sends private details of 193,000 workers to wrong employers
Department of Home Affairs – May 2022
Hundreds of classified Home Affairs documents believed sent to unsecured address in ‘serious’ breach of security protocols
NDIS – May 2022
Sensitive NDIS health data breached in client platform hack
NDIS case management system provider breached
Spirit Super – May 2022
Spirit Super hit by data leak, 50,000 accounts exposed
50,000 super fund members impacted by data breach
Facebook – May 2022
Facebook’s Zuckerberg sued for data breach
Mark Zuckerberg, head of Facebook-owner Meta, is being sued in the US over the Cambridge Analytica scandal that compromised the personal data of millions
South Australian Government – May 2022
More than 90,000 South Australian public servants now involved in payroll data breach
Transport for NSW – May 2022
TfNSW hit by another data breach
TfNSW hit by second cyber attack in less than 18 months
Data breach a Transport for NSW fail
Top Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks of 2022
Cybercrime is big business, and it’s already rife in 2022 – we’ve highlighted ten top cases
Block (ASX:SQ2) – April 2022
Block (ASX:SQ2) share price jumps 6% despite reporting a data breach
OKTA – March 2022
Okta says third-party breach may have impacted up to 366 customers
Lapsus$ hackers exploited Okta supplier’s security lapses
Okta investigates possible data breach
Okta confirms hundreds of customers could be affected by data breach
Microsoft – March 2022
Microsoft Azure DevOps targeted by hackers
Hackers Post Images Showing Possible Microsoft Breach
‘Single account’ compromise led to Microsoft’s Lapsus$ code leak
Ubisoft – March 2022
Ubisoft says ‘cyber security incident’ last week shows no evidence of data breach
Ubisoft fans need to change their passwords now
Nvidia – March 2022
Over 71,000 Nvidia accounts have personal data leaked following hack
Nvidia says employee, company information leaked online after cyber attack
Nvidia hackers claim they also hit Vodafone, threaten data leak
NVIDIA data breach exposed credentials of over 71,000 employees
Samsung – March 2022
Samsung Galaxy source code targeted by Lapsus$
Samsung confirms data breach after hackers leak internal source code
Hacking group allegedly leaks 190GB of data from Samsung
Nvidia hackers hit Samsung and leak huge data dump
Samsung hit by major data breach — Galaxy device source code stolen
Samsung confirms hack: is your TV or smartphone at risk?
Australian Data Breaches Report – March 2022
Australian data breach statistics revealed in OAIC report
Toyota Motor – March 2022
Toyota suspends domestic factory operations after suspected cyber attack
Medlab Pathology – February 2022
Medlab Pathology discloses February data breach
Australian Clinical Labs accused of ‘sitting on’ hack that saw patient data posted to the dark web
OAIC Report – February 2022
Latest notifiable data breaches report
Australian gov data breach numbers slip out of public view
NSW Government – February 2022
Sensitive addresses among more than 500,000 leaked from NSW Government database
NSW nurses strike as data breach defended
Sensitive business addresses among 500,000 published in COVID data breach
News Corp – February 2022
News Corp reports cyber data breach
News Corp reports cyber data breach
Chinese hackers believed to be behind News Corp data breach
Crypto.com – January 2022
Security News This Week: Crypto.com Finally Admits It Lost $30 Million in Hack
Red Cross Australia – January 2022
Australian Red Cross warns clients of potential security breach
Locations and contact data on 515,000 vulnerable people stolen in Red Cross data breach
Australian Red Cross clients potentially caught up in international cyber attack
Red Cross cyberattack sees data of thousands at-risk people stolen
Red Cross Cyber Attack Exposes Data of 515,000 Vulnerable People
Aussie Red Cross flags potential cyber breach
Australian Red Cross clients potentially caught up in international cyber attack
Red Cross hackers exploited Zoho vulnerability to gain entry
TfNSW (Accellion) – January 2022
TfNSW finds more customers, employees impacted by Accellion breach
FlexBooker – January 2022
Scheduling Platform FlexBooker Discloses Data Breach Affecting 3.7 Million Accounts
Bunnings – January 2022
Bunnings private customer data exposed in data breach
Bunnings Customer Data Breached
Bunnings Confirms Some Customer Data Is Caught up in FlexBooker Breach
Bunnings stresses little risk to customers from FlexBooker data leak
Bunnings’ drive and collect customer data caught up in FlexBooker security breach on Amazon cloud
Bunnings shoppers’ personal information potentially exposed to data security breach
Bunnings customers caught up in international data breach