Each year in Australia there are thousands of cyber breaches to businesses. Some will get headlines, some go unnoticed but every single Australian will be effected at one stage or another.
Here’s a “short” list of some data breaches that effected Australians in 2022… And we still have a few months to go…
Microsoft – October 2022
AFP – October 2022
Vinomofo – October 2022
Medibank – October 2022
Woolworths MyDeal – October 2022
Optus – September 2022
- Optus attack exposes customer information | Personal details of 1.1 million customers purportedly offered for sale.
Uber – September 2022
- Teen hacker gets into Uber, announces data breach on chat software Company forced to shut internal communications and engineering systems.
Fremantle Football Club – September 2022
TikTok – September 2022
LastPass – August 2022
- Password manager company LastPass reports major security breach | The company – which has more than 25 million users – says hackers stole parts of its source code and other sensitive data but it says no user data was compromised
DoorDash – August 2022
- Aussies’ sensitive details at risk after global data breach | Popular food delivery service DoorDash is investigating whether credit card and contact details of Australians have been leaked.
Facebook – August 2022
WA Health – August 2022
Cisco – August 2022
Twitter – August 2022
University of Western Australia – August 2022
Uber – July 2022
Perth Festival, Black Swan State Theatre Company – July 2022
Victorian Government – July 2022
Woolworths – July 2022
Marriott – July 2022
Mangatoon – July 2022
China Police – July 2022
Deakin University – July 2022
AMD – July 2022
OpenSea – July 2022
iCare – June 2022
- iCare data breach due to ‘human error’, agency says
- iCare sends private details of 193,000 workers to wrong employers
Department of Home Affairs – May 2022
NDIS – May 2022
- Sensitive NDIS health data breached in client platform hack
- NDIS case management system provider breached | Updated: “Large volume” of sensitive health data exposed.
Spirit Super – May 2022
APAC – May 2022
Facebook – May 2022
South Australian Government – May 2022
National Tertiary Education Union – May 2022
- NTEU becomes victim of data breach | NTEU servers were subject to a ransomware attack, a week out from University wide-strikes
Transport for NSW – May 2022
- TfNSW hit by second cyber attack in less than 18 months | Confirms authorised inspection scheme system data accessed
Coca-Cola – April 2022
- Coca-Cola investigating potential large-scale data breach | A new threat actor claims to have stolen gigabytes of data
Panasonic – April 2022
- Panasonic hit by another major cyberattack | Almost 3GB of data taken in attack on Panasonic
Block (ASX:SQ2) – April 2022
Warrnambool Council – March 2022
OKTA – March 2022
- Okta confirms hundreds of customers could be affected by data breach – January 2022 breach could have affected hundreds of Okta customers
Microsoft – March 2022
- Hackers Post Images Showing Possible Microsoft Breach – The same cybercriminal group that recently breached Nvidia briefly shares a screenshot that suggests the hackers also gained access to Bing’s source code.
- ‘Single account’ compromise led to Microsoft’s Lapsus$ code leak – Attackers were interrupted mid-operation
Ubisoft – March 2022
- Ubisoft says ‘cyber security incident’ last week shows no evidence of data breach – Ubisoft’s IT team is working with external experts to investigate the incident, which took place last week.
Nvidia – March 2022
- Over 71,000 Nvidia accounts have personal data leaked following hack
- Nvidia hackers claim they also hit Vodafone, threaten data leak
Samsung – March 2022
- Samsung confirms data breach after hackers leak internal source code
- Nvidia hackers hit Samsung and leak huge data dump
Toyota Motor – March 2022
- Toyota suspends domestic factory operations after suspected cyber attack | 13,000 vehicles held up after supplier hacked
OAIC Report – February 2022
NSW Government – February 2022
- Sensitive addresses among more than 500,000 leaked from NSW Government database
- Sensitive business addresses among 500,000 published in COVID data breach
News Corp – February 2022
CFMMEUR – February 2022
Red Cross Australia – January 2022
- Locations and contact data on 515,000 vulnerable people stolen in Red Cross data breach
- Red Cross hackers exploited Zoho vulnerability to gain entry | Accessed case files of 515,000 vulnerable people held in encrypted database
TfNSW (Accellion) – January 2022
FlexBooker – January 2022
Bunnings – January 2022
- Bunnings Confirms Some Customer Data Is Caught up in FlexBooker Breach
- Bunnings shoppers’ personal information potentially exposed to data security breach