23andMe – December 2023
The 23andMe Data Breach Keeps Spiraling
Genetic testing firm 23andMe admits hackers accessed DNA data of 7m users
23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users
23andMe Blames Data Breach Victims For Weak Passwords
NSW Eastern Suburb Libraries – December 2023
Woollahra Council, Double Bay, Paddington and Watsons Bay | Thousands of residents in affluent Sydney suburbs affected by cyberattack
Yakult Australia – December 2023
Yakult Australia targeted in cyber attack, employee files published on dark web
TikTok – December 2023
TikTok Data Breaches: Full Timeline Through 2023
TikTok privacy breach allegations under spotlight
St Vincent’s Health – December 2023
St Vincent’s Health network hit by cyber attack, with data stolen
St Vincent’s Health says data stolen in cyber attack
Data stolen in hack on national health provider St Vincent’s
Revealed: St Vincent’s hackers got in with compromised accounts
St Vincent’s cyberattack work of sophisticated criminals, say investigators
St Vincent’s Health suffers data breach in cyber attack
Media Statement – Cyber incident update
Revealed: St Vincent’s hackers got in with compromised accounts
St Vincent’s Health Australia warns cyber attack forensics could “take some time”
Qld Rural Fire Service – December 2023
Former QFES contractor investigated over alleged Rural Fire Service information breach
The Department for Child Protection said Aboriginal Family Support Services (AFSS) – December 2023
Aboriginal child protection service contracted by SA government hit by data breach
Top Health Doctors West End – December 2023
Clinic’s data breach a reminder to bolster security
Certis Security Australia – November 2023
Certis Security Australia suffers email breach
Okta’s data breach bigger than first thought
Australian Clinical Labs – November 2023
Sexual health and fertility details leaked in ACL data breach
NDIA – November 2023
NDIA detects data breach
Two charged following fraud investigations
Samsung – November 2023
Samsung says hackers accessed customer data during year-long breach
Australian Signals Directorate’s 2022/23 Cyber Threat Report – November 2023
ASD Cyber Threat Report 2022-2023
DP World – November 2023
Fears of significant delays after ‘cyber security incident’ shuts down major port operator
Australian ports operator suffers ‘cyber security incident’
Ports to remain closed as AFP investigates cybersecurity breach
Australian Government Monitors Significant Stevedore Cyber Attack
DP World Australia back online after cyber incident
Australian port operator DP World hit by cyber attack
Alfred Health – November 2023
HIV patient ‘stunned’ after his medical record accessed in Alfred data breach
The Alfred CEO ‘can’t guarantee’ alarming data breach is an isolated incident
Digital Patient Pathways – October 2023
SA patient health info deleted in third-party app breach
Personify Care – October 2023
Details of thousands of patients have been accessed in a data breach
SA Health patient records accessed in data breach of third-party system Personify Care
Royal Women’s Hospital Parkville – October 2023
Personal data of almost 200 patients exposed in hack of Melbourne hospital staff member’s email
Sony – October 2023
A ransomware group is claiming they’ve breached Sony’s systems and stolen data [updated]
Over 6,000 individuals hit in Sony data breach: reports
Network Pacific Real Estate – October 2023
Ransomware gang posts 30GB of data it claims belongs to Victorian real estate group
HWL Ebsworth – September 2023
Scale of HWL Ebsworth hack revealed: 2.5m files, 65 agencies
HWL Ebsworth says ‘business as usual’ after hack
RBA, AFP, AusPost caught up in law firm hack
Albanese government loses national security information in data hack
Full list of government agencies affected by HWL Ebsworth hack revealed
Pizza Hut – September 2023
Pizza Hut says customer data breached in cyber hack
Pizza Hut Australia customers’ personal details accessed in cyber attack
Pizza Hut Customers Compromised in Australian Data Breach
Pizza Hut says nearly two-hundred thousand customers affected by data breach
Pizza Hut hacked, customer data and orders taken
Pizza Hut warns customers of possible data breach
Pizza Hut Australia joins data breaches list
Australian Federal Police, HWL Ebsworth – September 2023
Federal police caught up in huge law firm data breach
AFP officer data leaked in cyber breach
Dymocks – September 2023
Dymocks customer data ‘may have been compromised’
Dymocks warns customers of data breach after account information leaked on dark web
Dymocks book store chain warns customer data compromised in security breach
Dymocks discloses breach after dark web data leak
1.2 million customers caught up in Dymocks hack
Dymocks confirms details of 1.2 million customers shared on dark web in data breach
Dymocks links data breach to “external data partner”
Dymocks CEO Outlines Details of Data Breach
Dymocks breach happened while changing providers
University of Sydney – August 2023
University of Sydney caught up in third-party data breach
Cyber incident
American Express – August 2023
American Express confirms data leak of APAC employee details
Pareto Phone – August 2023
Multiple Australian charities have had donor information leaked onto the dark web
Australian Conservation Foundation says data of 13,500 donors caught up in Pareto Phone hack
Charity donor details leaked to dark web after Pareto Phone breach
Amnesty International latest victim of widening telemarketer breach
Thousands of charity donors have data leaked on dark web after telemarketer hack
Tesla – August 2023
Tesla says two ex-employees behind May data breach
Tesla blames 2 former staff for data breach affecting 75k
Top 10 Countries Being Bombarded by Data Breaches – August 2023
The Top 10 Countries Being Bombarded by Data Breaches
MOVEit – August 2023
MOVEit hack spawned over 600 breaches
PwC client hit in housing industry data hack
Victorian State Government – July 2023
Prom camping chaos continues with data breach, say Nationals
myGov – July 2023
ATO attackers filed $557 million in false claims
Fraud Enabled by MyGov ‘Security Gap’ Costs Australian Taxpayers $500 Million
NDIS | HWL Ebsworth – July 2023
The NDIA lists exposure to HWL Ebsworth data breach
NDIS participants distressed after data caught up in HWL Ebsworth breach
PWDA Addresses NDIS Data Breach Incident
National Disability Insurance Scheme hit by law firm’s data breach
PWDA Responds to NDIS Data Breach
Paypal – July 2023
Byron Bay woman’s data breach nightmare exposes risks of ‘credential stuffing’. So how do you avoid it?
Department of Home Affairs – July 2023
Home Affairs Inadvertently Leaks Personal Data of 50 Small Businesses
Parks Victoria – July 2023
Parks Victoria online system crashes causing concerns of potential data breach
Notifiable Data Breaches Report July to December 2023
This report captures notifications received under the NDB scheme from 1 July to 31 December 2023.
LG Energy Solution Australia & Solar Service Guys – June 2023
LG Energy Solutions Australia and Solar Service Guys Respond to Data Breach Allegations
Australian Defence Force – June 2023
Russian cyber hackers compromise top-secret defensive data in historic breach
PwC – June 2023
PwC caught up in global data breach, ASX closes up on Woolworths and CSL gains — as it happened
PwC victim of massive data hack
Port Arthur Library – June 2023
Human error, not data breach, behind Port Arthur staff information appearing ‘live’ on library website
Fire Rescue Victoria – May 2023
Fire Rescue Victoria’s cyber-hack response a ‘lesson in how not to communicate’
SuperVPN – May 2023
A data breach on a free VPN service has led to 360 million records being exposed to the public, according to a new report.
NT Government – May 2023
Thousands of identifiable NT patient health files sent to overseas-based software vendor in government data breach
Patients told to contact NT Health following privacy breach of identifiable medical records
Toyota – May 2023
Toyota confirms decade-long data breach
Toyota Data Breach exposed 10 years’ worth of data for over 2m customers
Toyota data breach: Millions of Japanese owners affected, Australia safe for now
Toyota confirms some Australian owners affected in unprotected data event
Toyota Australia customers victim of data breach
Toyota does U-turn, confirms thousands of Australian customers hit by latest data breach
Australian Toyota customers caught up in global data breach
Toyota apologizes after additional data breach, expands investigation
Toyota says some customers in Asia, Oceania face risk of data leak
Ambulance Victoria – May 2023
Employee records exposed in Ambulance Victoria data breach
Ambulance Victoria apologises after data leak
Paramedics’ drug and alcohol history exposed in Victorian data breach
Medibank – May 2023
Health care giant Medibank sued over data breach that affected 9.7m people
Medibank hit with fresh class action after data hack
Medibank’s staff details stolen after property manager faces cyber breach
HWL Ebsworth – May 2023
HWL Ebsworth suffers data breach
Russian-linked hackers taunt HWL Ebsworth over data breach, claim to have published files to dark web
HWL Ebsworth data breach
Tasmanian Government may be caught up in another data breach
HWL Ebsworth data breach
HWL Ebsworth data breach: Hackers claim huge data leak
Ebsworth data breach
Amnesty International Australia – April 2023
Amnesty International Australia Suffered a Data Breach in December, but Says Everything is Now Fine
Optus – April 2023
Optus data breach class action launched for millions of Australians caught up in cyber attack
‘Wake-up call for corporate Australia’: 100,000 people join Optus data breach class action
Class action launched against Optus over 2022 data breach
Optus sued by ‘vulnerable’ victims of data breach
Spruson and Ferguson – April 2023
IPH reveals data breach originated from subsidiary’s systems
IPH reveals data breach originated from member firm
Australia’s IPH reveals data breach originated from member firm’s systems
Coles – April 2023
Coles confirms its customers impacted by Latitude Financial data breach – ABC News
Coles credit card customers exposed in Latitude data breach
Service NSW – April 2023
Service NSW ‘technical issue’ may have exposed data of 3700 customers
Service NSW breach exposes personal data affecting thousands of customers
Tasmanian Government – March 2023
Tasmanians affected by security breach of third-party file transfer service
Tas gov says 16,000 documents leaked in GoAnywhere breach | Financial invoices and statements
Major data breach in Tasmania exposes 16,000 documents online
Names, addresses and bank account details potentially at risk after hack, Tasmanian government says
Minister confirms 16,000 documents released online in Tasmanian data breach, helpline set up
Meriton – March 2023
Hotel and property giant Meriton hit by data hack, personal documents may be at risk
Bank details, birth certificates potentially hacked in Meriton data breach
Private financial, health information exposed in Meriton data breach
Crown Resorts – March 2023
Crown Resorts investigating potential data breach after being contacted by hacking group
Crown Casinos investigates as ransomware group claims to have breached data
Canberra Health Services – March 2023
Health worker sacked over ‘serious breach’ of patients’ privacy as ACT government investigates data misuse
Private records of some Canberra Health Services patients ‘deliberately’ sent to industrial partner
Explainer: What we know about the privacy breach at Canberra Health Services
Rio Tinto – March 2023
Rio Tinto says staff’s personal data may have been hacked in memo after an attack on GoAnywhere software
Rio Tinto staff’s personal data, payslips may be affected by hack
Rio Tinto’s Australian staff may have had personal data stolen in hack
Latitude – March 2023
Latitude Financial warns customer data breach could widen and hack ‘remains active’
Latitude Financial breach impacts 225,000 customers
Latitude customers are furious: some have had data hacked before through Medibank and Optus
Latitude Financial Scrambles to Contain Large Data Breach
Latitude Financial Hacked Impacting 328,000 Customers In Australia’s Latest Data Breach
Latitude Financial hit by cyber attack, more than 300,000 identity documents stolen
Latitude Financial data breach widens as fears over copies of driver’s licences grow
If you have had your NSW driver licence details exposed in the Latitude Financial data breach you may need to replace your card
NSW Health – March 2023
NSW Health has revealed itself to have been affected by the recent Frontier Software data breach
The Good Guys – February 2023
The Good Guys warns of customer data leak
Historic data breach impacts up to 1.85 million The Good Guys customers
The Good Guys customers possibly affected by data breach at former third-party provider My Rewards
The Good Guys Says the Bad Guys Hacked Its Old Rewards System
Guardian Australia – February 2023
Guardian Australia staff details compromised in cyberattack
JD Sports – February 2023
Sports clothing retailer JD Sports hit by cyber attack which leaked 10 million customers’ data
Mount Lilydale Mercy College – January 2023
Mount Lilydale Mercy College caught up in data breach hack
Hundreds of parents hit by credit card hack at Lilydale school
More than 11,000 employees, students and former staff affected by cyber attack, QUT says
QUT – January 2023
QUT confirms personal data of thousands of staff compromised in cyber attack
QUT alerts staff, students to data breach – After December ransomware attack
QUT attack breaches data of 11,405 individuals
