Cyber attack via phishing which resulted in the theft of personal data @ Australian Catholic University

In June 2019, the university disclosed a data breach following a phishing attack in May where "an email pretending to be from ACU [tricked] users into clicking on a link or opening an attachment and then entering credentials into a fake ACU login page...

Hacker stole and sold user data on dark web @ Evite

In May 2019, the company confirmed a data breach that was first reported in April when an attacker began selling data from breached companies including theirs. The intrusion occurred in February and involved an "inactive data storage file" that contai...

Email phishing scam results in customer's data exposed @ Butlins

In August 2018, the company disclosed via a dedicated page on their website that they had discovered an attempt to access guest's data by an unauthorised third party after "a phishing attack via an unauthorised email". It was reported that up to 34,0...

Job seekers affected by data breach @ PageUp and Telstra Corporation Ltd

In June 2018, the company disclosed that they were among a number of large Australian organisations who were impacted by a data security incident at a third party software services provider used as part of their employee recruitment process. In res...

Chicken restaurant warns customers of a data breach @ PDQ and People Dedicated to Quality

In June 2018, the company disclosed they had discovered a breach of customer information earlier that same month following unauthorized access that took place between May 2017 to April 2018. The exposed information included some or all of the foll...

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