This was Australia's biggest ever breach when it was disclosed in October 2016. The company said that a "one-off human error" by a member of the technical team at a third party that developed and maintained the company's website had allowed unauthorised access to a back-up copy of an online enquiry database. Specifically, the error was that a file was placed in an insecure environment and this file contained registration information of 550,000 donors and included names, addresses, dates of birth and other personal details.
In December 2017 it was reported that the third party behind this data breach had been liquidated. Just 13 months after this incident went public demonstrating how devastating the consequences can be for enterprises with poor security practices.
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