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2023 - Data Breach Notifications in Australia
Cyberlutions Team • Apr 07, 2024
23andMe – December 2023
- The 23andMe Data Breach Keeps Spiraling | 23andMe has provided more information about the scope and scale of its recent breach, but with these details come more unanswered questions.
- Genetic testing firm 23andMe admits hackers accessed DNA data of 7m users | US company says ‘threat actor’ responsible for security breach that affected nearly half of its 14m reported 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
Yakult Australia – December 2023
TikTok – December 2023
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”
Melbourne Arts Centre – December 2023
Qld Rural Fire Service – December 2023
University of Wollongong – December 2023
ASIC – December 2023
The Department for Child Protection said Aboriginal Family Support Services (AFSS) – December 2023
Top Health Doctors West End – December 2023
- Clinic’s data breach a reminder to bolster security | The personal details of more than 5000 patients may have been ‘compromised’ after a Brisbane medical centre’s email account was breached.
Certis Security Australia – November 2023
- Certis Security Australia suffers email breach | Customers not affected.
- Okta’s data breach bigger than first thought – All customer service contact details leaked.
Australian Clinical Labs – November 2023
NDIA – November 2023
- NDIA detects data breach | The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) has detected a data breach involving the alleged unauthorised disclosure of the personal details of some National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants and related parties.
- Two charged following fraud investigations
Samsung – November 2023
Australian Signals Directorate’s 2022/23 Cyber Threat Report – November 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 | Movement of goods now slowly resuming.
TissuPath – November 2023
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
Personify Care – October 2023
- Details of thousands of patients have been accessed in a data breach | SA Health patients caught up in data breach of third-party platform Personify Care
- SA Health patient records accessed in data breach of third-party system Personify Care
Super SA – October 2023
Royal Women’s Hospital Parkville – October 2023
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
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 | List of affected government entities finally revealed.
- 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 | Compromised details were not on the fast food menu
Australian Federal Police, HWL Ebsworth – September 2023
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 | Names, addresses, and dates of birth breached
- 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 | Says it will only store the ‘bare minimum’ data in future
University of Sydney – August 2023
American Express – August 2023
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
auDA – August 2023
- Hackers claim to have breached auDA | Domain administrator investigating
Tesla – August 2023
- Tesla says two ex-employees behind May data breach
- Tesla blames 2 former staff for data breach affecting 75k
Judo Bank & REX – August 2023
Department of Veterans’ Affairs – August 2023
Top 10 Countries Being Bombarded by Data Breaches – August 2023
MOVEit – August 2023
ChatGPT – July 2023
Victorian State Government – July 2023
myGov – July 2023
- ATO attackers filed $557 million in false claims | myGov accounts faked using breached identities
- 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 | Individuals who engaged with the legal business could be affected
- PWDA Responds to NDIS Data Breach
Paypal – July 2023
Department of Home Affairs – July 2023
SA Liberal Party – July 2023
Parks Victoria – July 2023
Notifiable Data Breaches Report July to December 2023
Perpetual – June 2023
LG Energy Solution Australia & Solar Service Guys – June 2023
Australian Defence Force – June 2023
SmartPay – June 2023
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
ACT Government – June 2023
Fire Rescue Victoria – May 2023
SuperVPN – May 2023
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
NAB Business & Consumer Insights – April 2023
Amnesty International Australia – April 2023
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
Afterpay – April 2023
Spruson and Ferguson – April 2023
- IPH reveals data breach originated from member firm
- IPH reveals data breach originated from subsidiary’s systems
- 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
MSI – April 2023
- MSI confirms cyber attack | Says “no significant” financial impact.
TAFE – April 2023
- TAFE data breach uncovered by SA Police | Credentials for 2224 students stolen
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
iD Tech – March 2023
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
QIMR Berghofer – March 2023
Latitude – March 2023
- Latitude Financial warns customer data breach could widen and hack ‘remains active’
- Latitude Financial breach impacts 225,000 customers | Staff logins used to attack third-party service providers.
- 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
CBA – March 2023
The Good Guys – February 2023
- The Good Guys warns of customer data leak | Breach of loyalty program in 2021.
- 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
JD Sports – February 2023
- Sports clothing retailer JD Sports hit by cyber attack which leaked 10 million customers’ data | The personal data includes names, email addresses, phone numbers and billing addresses.
GoTo – January 2023
Mount Lilydale Mercy College – January 2023
- Mount Lilydale Mercy College caught up in data breach hack | Parents are being warned their credit card information may have been stolen over the school holidays.
- 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 | Extent of Royal attack revealed.
PayPal – January 2023
Norton LifeLock – January 2023
- Norton LifeLock hit by data breach via password managers
- NortonLifeLock hit by data breach via password managers
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