Data breaches in the last 6 months of 2022 surged compared to the first six month according to the Government sources.
Fire Rescue Victoria – December 2022
- Fire Rescue Victoria investigating security incident
- Cyber attack cripples Fire Rescue Victoria | Firefighters resort to mobile phones and radio.
LastPass – December 2022
TPG Telecom – December 2022
State Office of Victoria – December 2022
LJ Hooker – December 2022
Telstra – December 2022
- Telstra blames privacy breach on ‘database misalignment’ | Published details of unlisted customers online.
- Telstra explains how internal data breach exposed more than 130,000 customers’ details
- Telstra apologises after customer data breach
- Telstra slips up as details of 130,000 customers go online
- Telstra privacy breach sees customer details made public
Twitter – November 2022
WhatsApp – November 2022
The Smith Family – November 2022
- The Smith Family warns supporters of stolen personal data amid hack on Australian charity
- Children’s charity The Smith Family hit by cyberattack
Harcourts – November 2022
Victorian Government | PNORS Technology Group – November 2022
BWX (Flora & Fauna) – November 2022
SSKB – October 2022
Microsoft – October 2022
AFP – October 2022
Vinomofo – October 2022
- Online wine seller Vinomofo hit in major data breach
- Vinomofo data breach: 500,000 customers at risk after wine dealer hit by cyber-attack
Medibank – October 2022
- Medibank admits personal data stolen in cyber attack
- Medibank Group detects cyberattack, takes several services offline as a precaution
- Medibank receives contact from hackers | Group requests negotiations over customer data.
Woolworths MyDeal – October 2022
- Woolworths MyDeal becomes latest target of cyber attack. What information was leaked and what can you do if you’re affected?
- Woolworths says data of 2.2 million customers of its MyDeal website has been exposed
North Face – September 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
- Uber investigating ‘cyber security incident’ after report of breach | Company forced to shut internal communications and engineering systems.
- Uber Investigating Massive Security Breach by Alleged Teen Hacker
- Uber in ‘unforgivable’ security breach
Fremantle Football Club – September 2022
TikTok – September 2022
- TikTok Hacked, Denies Security Breach Allegations
- TikTok denies security breach after hackers claim to have records of more than a billion users
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.
- LastPass was hacked, 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
- WA Health Department apologises for monkeypox data breach of passengers on flight from Doha to Perth
- Nurse responsible for major monkeypox data breach in Perth
- Health Department under fire as personal details of monkeypox plane passengers sent out in email
Cisco – August 2022
Twitter – August 2022
- Twitter confirms personal details of millions of account holders compromised
- Twitter says zero-day bug leaked account data
- More than 5 million Twitter accounts impacted by recent data breach
University of Western Australia – August 2022
- Student details, photos exposed in University of WA data breach
- University of Western Australia Student Details Exposed in Data Breach
- University of Western Australia Confirms Student Details Exposed in Data Breach
- University of Western Australia: Police charge man over major UWA data breach
Neopets – July 2022
- A Hacker Is Trying to Sell Data on 69 Million Neopets Users
- The Hackers Who Breached Neopets Were Inside Its IT Systems for 18 Months
Uber – July 2022
- Uber confesses it covered up a huge data breach | Confession comes as part of DoJ settlement
- Uber settles with DOJ for failing to disclose breach that exposed 57 million users’ data
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
- Deakin University reveals breach of 47,000 students’ details | Subset targeted with smish sent via officially-used SMS channel.
- Data on Almost 47,000 Students Exposed in Deakin Uni Breach
- Hackers target Deakin Uni
AMD – July 2022
- AMD is investigating a serious potential data breach | An attacker claims to have stolen 450Gb of sensitive data
- AMD Is Investigating a Potential Data Breach Allegedly Caused by Weak Passwords
OpenSea – July 2022
- OpenSea customers warned to stay on high alert for phishing attacks | OpenSea email database exposed by third party
- NFT giant OpenSea reports major email data breach
- OpenSea users’ email addresses leaked in data breach
- NFTs Have Been Stolen From OpenSea Users
iCare – June 2022
- iCare data breach due to ‘human error’, agency says
- iCare launches systems review after 193,000 claimants affected by privacy breach
- 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
- Spirit Super hit by data leak, 50,000 accounts exposed
- 50,000 super fund members impacted by data breach
APAC – May 2022
Facebook – May 2022
- Facebook’s Zuckerberg sued for data breach
- Mark Zuckerberg, head of Facebook-owner Meta, is being sued in the US over the Cambridge Analytica scandal that compromised the personal data of millions
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 another data breach
- TfNSW hit by second cyber attack in less than 18 months | Confirms authorised inspection scheme system data accessed
- Data breach a Transport for NSW fail
SuperVPN, GeckoVPN, ChatVPN – April 2022
Coca-Cola – April 2022
- Coca-Cola investigating potential large-scale data breach | A new threat actor claims to have stolen gigabytes of data
Top Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks of 2022
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 says third-party breach may have impacted up to 366 customers – Hackers took control of contractor’s computer
- Lapsus$ hackers exploited Okta supplier’s security lapses – Allegedly found spreadsheet with login credentials.
- Okta investigates possible data breach – May relate to third-party customer support engineer targeted in January.
- 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.
- Microsoft Azure DevOps targeted by hackers
- ‘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.
- Ubisoft fans need to change their passwords now – Ubisoft player data should still be safe
Nvidia – March 2022
- Over 71,000 Nvidia accounts have personal data leaked following hack
- Nvidia says employee, company information leaked online after cyber attack
- Nvidia hackers claim they also hit Vodafone, threaten data leak
- NVIDIA data breach exposed credentials of over 71,000 employees
Samsung – March 2022
- Samsung confirms data breach after hackers leak internal source code
- Hacking group allegedly leaks 190GB of data from Samsung
- Nvidia hackers hit Samsung and leak huge data dump
- Samsung hit by major data breach — Galaxy device source code stolen
- Samsung Galaxy source code targeted by Lapsus$
- Samsung confirms hack: is your TV or smartphone at risk?
Australian Data Breaches Report
Toyota Motor – March 2022
- Toyota suspends domestic factory operations after suspected cyber attack | 13,000 vehicles held up after supplier hacked
Medlab Pathology – February 2022
- Medlab Pathology discloses February data breach
- Australian Clinical Labs accused of ‘sitting on’ hack that saw patient data posted to the dark web
OAIC Report – February 2022
NSW Government – February 2022
- Sensitive addresses among more than 500,000 leaked from NSW Government database
- NSW nurses strike as data breach defended
- Sensitive business addresses among 500,000 published in COVID data breach
News Corp – February 2022
- News Corp reports cyber data breach
- News Corp reports cyber data breach
- Chinese hackers believed to be behind News Corp data breach
CFMMEUR – February 2022
Crypto.com – January 2022
Red Cross Australia – January 2022
- Locations and contact data on 515,000 vulnerable people stolen in Red Cross data breach
- Australian Red Cross clients potentially caught up in international cyber attack
- Red Cross cyberattack sees data of thousands at-risk people stolen
- Red Cross Cyber Attack Exposes Data of 515,000 Vulnerable People
- Australian Red Cross warns clients of potential security breach
- Aussie Red Cross flags potential cyber breach
- Australian Red Cross clients potentially caught up in international cyber attack
- 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 private customer data exposed in data breach
- Bunnings Customer Data Breached
- Bunnings Confirms Some Customer Data Is Caught up in FlexBooker Breach
- Bunnings stresses little risk to customers from FlexBooker data leak
- Bunnings’ drive and collect customer data caught up in FlexBooker security breach on Amazon cloud
- Bunnings shoppers’ personal information potentially exposed to data security breach
- Bunnings customers caught up in international data breach
