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2020 - Data Breach Notifications in Australia
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OAIC – 2020
- Notifiable Data Breaches Report 01/07/20 – 31/12/20
- Australian govt entity hit by brute-force attack | Agencies rack up reportable data breaches in back half of 2020.
Nintendo Switch – December 2020
- Nintendo Switch breach: dangerous data leak could’ve killed Switch – Massive data leak shows early Switch designs and leaked keys that could’ve toppled console
Ledger – December 2020
Spotify – December 2020
FireEye – December 2020
NSW State Transit Authority – December 2020
Flight Centre – 2017, reported December 2020
- Flight Centre leaks customer data in an incredibly stupid way
- An investigation into a major data breach involving Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) more than three years ago has found that the company broke a number of Australian Privacy Principles.
- Flight Centre hackathon behind 2017 breach, exposed 6918 customers’ data | Full post-mortem revealed for the first time
BTC Markets – December 2020
Levitas Capital – November 2020
Law in Order – November 2020
Sophos – November 2020
- Sophos tight-lipped about data breach, no lessons learnt from WannaCry bungle
- Sophos warns customers it was hit by data breach | Data breach has exposed sensitive information of Sophos users
Wildworks – November 2020
Capcom – November 2020
- ‘Resident Evil’ game maker Capcom confirms data breach after ransomware attack
- Dragon’s Dogma 2, Street Fighter 6 reportedly leaked in Capcom data breach
Prestige Software – November 2020
Blackbaud – November 2020
Nitro PDF – October 2020
- Nitro PDF suffers massive data breach, exposing Microsoft, Google, Amazon documents
- Nitro again insists data breach ‘isolated’ as incident gets more coverage
Spotless – October 2020
- Spotless hit by ransomware attack | Exclusive: Confirms a ‘number’ of servers ‘accessed’
DFAT – September 2020
CloudBees CodeShip – September 2020
- DevOps solutions provider CloudBees discloses data breach | Malicious actor accessed failover database for a year.
Scouts Victoria – September 2020
- Potential personal data breach of about 900 people after Scouts Victoria hacked
- Scouts Victoria data breach potentially nets 900 people’s personal details | Including bank details, birth certificates and court orders
Activision – September 2020
- Possible Activision hack puts thousands of COD player accounts at risk – here’s all you need to know
University of Tasmania – September 2020
- IT bungle leads to mass student data breach
- Data breach at University of Tasmania affects 20,000 students
- UTAS contacts 19,900 students caught up in data breach
- University of Tasmania leaks data of 19,900 students | Sharepoint site gave access to anyone with a UTAS email.
Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron – September 2020
Zhenhua Data – September 2020
- A Huge Chinese Data Breach Has Exposed Info Of 35,000 Aussies Including… Natalie Imbruglia?
- Leaked Chinese database show company’s interest in Australia’s space and science sector
- Australian business leaders caught up in China’s mass surveillance: Here’s what it means
Telmate – September 2020
K7Maths – September 2020
- Large Australian education data leak traced to third-party service – AusCERT rules out government ownership
Transport for NSW – August 2020
- Over 54,000 scanned NSW driver’s licences found in open cloud storage – TfNSW investigates mystery data leak on AWS S3
- More than 50,000 NSW driver’s licences exposed in mystery data leak – Drive understands those affected have not been contacted yet
- More than 50,000 NSW driver’s licences exposed in mystery data leak – It remains unclear where the image files came from, but experts say a fleet or toll operator could be to blame.
- Service NSW still waiting to notify on data breach after four months
- NSW driver’s licence data breach left Sydney health worker ‘sickened’
- How Bob the Ukrainian security consultant uncovered massive Australian data breach
- ALP calls for action after data breach affects 50,000 NSW drivers
- Data breach exposes tens of thousands of NSW driver’s licences online
Freepik – August 2020
Tik Tok, Instagram & YouTube – August 2020
RI Advice Group – August 2020
- ASIC sues financial services company for repeated hacks | Hacker spent 155 hours logged in without detection
- ASIC comes for IOOF subsidiary over inadequate cyber security infrastructure
- Company sued over poor cyber security – Passwords found in text files on server desktop
Canon – August 2020
ACT Public Schools – August 2020
Visa Europe Ltd – August 2020
Carnival Corporation – August 2020
Intel – August 2020
- Intel investigates source code dump of proprietary data – Intel is investigating the recent leak that dumped more than 20GB of proprietary data into the public domain
Australian Universities – August 2020
- Investigating ‘deeply concerning’ hack of controversial exam software – Personal records of 444,000 ProctorU users have reportedly been obtained in a hack and leaked online in hacker forums
- Hackers hit university online exam tool
- Australian universities investigate online exam tool data breach
Instacart – July 2020
Garmin – July 2020
City of Darwin – July 2020
WA Department of Health – July 2020
- WA Department of Health data breach sees confidential patient information published online
- WA Health traces data leak to third-party pager service
- Coronavirus: Teenager allegedly behind massive WA data breach
- Minor allegedly involved in Western Australia’s medical record data breach
- Clarification of reported data breach
VPN – July 2020
Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Scheme – June 2020
TikTok – June 2020
- TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users | A major TikTok security issue detected by Apple
Twitter – June 2020
Google Chrome – June 2020
Australia – June 2020
- Australia targeted in ‘sophisticated’ state-based cyber attack
- ‘Cyber attacks’ point to China’s spy agency, Ministry of State Security, as Huawei payback, say former Australian officials
- Australia under cyber attack
- China believed to be behind major cyber attack on Australian governments and businesses
Fisher & Paykel – June 2020
Avon – June 2020
Lion – June 2020
- Drinks maker Lion shuts IT systems after ‘cyber incident’
- Lion accidentally directs milk orders to Sydney IT security consultancy
- Lion warns of beer shortages after cyber attack
- Drinks maker Lion lost CIO Grainne Kearns in March
Noni B – June 2020
Babylon Health – June 2020
- Babylon Health data breach exposes user medical records to strangers | Bug was accidentally introduced via a recent update
- Babylon Health admits ‘software error’ led to patient data breach
- Babylon Health admits GP app suffered a data breach
- A telemedicine app accidentally leaked videos of people’s medical consultations to other patients
Joomla – June 2020
AFL Fan Website – May 2020
IN SPORT – May 2020
My Health Record – May 2020
Service NSW – May 2020
BlueScope Steel – May 2020
GoDaddy – May 2020
WA Police Force – April 2020
Optus – April 2020
- Optus hit with $40 million class action after alleged data breach of 50,000 customers details
- Optus faces class action over major data breach
- Optus facing class action over alleged customer privacy breaches
Facebook – April 2020
Apple – April 2020
Zoom – April 2020
- 500,000 Zoom Account Breaches Reminds Us Not To Be Sloppy With Passwords
- How to stay safe on Houseparty and Zoom
- Intruder alert! How to keep Zoom meetings secure
- How To Protect Your Zoom Account From Recent Data Breaches
- Zoom brings in big guns to fix security problems | Paid users can avoid specific data centres
Marriott – April 2020
Federal Court – March 2020
Houseparty – March 2020
Chubb – March 2020
Norwegian Cruise Line – March 2020
Microsoft Teams and Zoom – March 2020
Henning Harders – March 2020
Melbourne TAFE – March 2020
Australian Department of Defence – March 2020
- Fears private details of Defence Force members compromised in database hack
- Defence plays down report of likely recruitment database breach
Nord VPN – March 2020
Alinta Energy – March 2020
- Alinta Energy accused of putting customers’ sensitive information at risk
- Alinta Energy accused of endangering privacy of 1.1 million customers
Clearview AI – February 2020
- Controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI hit by massive client data breach
- Leaked Document Shows Australian Police Use Creepy Clearview AI Facial Recognition Software
Talman – February 2020
Samsung – February 2020
MGM – February 2020
- MGM data breach exposed personal details of 10.6 million hotel guests – If you’ve stayed at an MGM Resorts hotel, you may be among victims of the latest massive data breach.
- MGM Resorts sued over data breach
- CES Attendees Data Hacked MGM Resorts Compromised
Slickwraps – February 2020
Smartwatch – February 2020
Toll – February 2020
- Toll held to ransom as cyber attack stalls deliveries
- Toll Group confirms “targeted” ransomware attack
- Toll Group hit by “new variant” of Mailto ransomware
- Toll Group tight-lipped on alleged ransomware attack
- Toll Group shuts IT systems after ‘cyber security incident’
- ACSC gets to grips with Mailto threat after Toll Group infection – Releases hash of ransomware “from this incident”
Yarra Trams – February 2020
Perth Mint – January 2020
Microsoft – January 2020
- Microsoft customer support database exposed online
- How To Protect Yourself In Microsoft’s Recent Data Breach
LabCorp – January 2020
I.M.L. SLU, the parent company of ImLive and PussyCash – January 2020
- Porn site data breach leaks thousands of cam models’ personal details
- Porn stars exposed in data leak
- Exclusive: Australians involved in online pornography data breach
P&N Bank – January 2020
Travelex – January 2020
Amazon – January 2020
Wyze – January 2020
- How To Protect Your Wyze Account After The Recent Data Breach – A recent security breach has leaked the information of over 2.4 million Wyze security camera users. The compromised database was left unsecured and publicly accessible, and it appears that the information was being collected and stored by the Alibaba cloud computing company in China.
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