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The Guardian: Latitude Financial has revealed that 14m customer records – including driver’s licence numbers, passport numbers and financial statements – were stolen from its system in a cyber-attack that was far worse than the company initially reported.
U.S News: The Australian government on Monday said it planned to overhaul its cyber security rules and set up an agency to oversee government investment in the field and help coordinate responses to hacker attacks.
Express: Australia had 16 major cyber-attacks against Australian organisations, which were trying to be “cyber extortion attacks”, claimed CyberCX Cyber Intelligence Director Katherine Mansted. Recently, millions of Australians had their privacy breached in cyber attacks on Optus, Medibank and other companies.
BNN Bloomberg: Data stolen from an Australian health insurer, including the names, addresses and birthdates of hundreds of customers, has been posted to a forum on the so-called dark web.
U.S. News: Australia's biggest health insurer said a criminal had apparently stolen customers' medical information as part of a massive breach of data, fuelling concern about a wave of high-profile cyber attacks.
Bleeping Computer: The hacker who claimed to have breached Optus and stolen the data of 11 million customers has withdrawn their extortion demands after facing increased attention by law enforcement. The threat actor also apologized to 10,200 people whose personal data was already leaked on a hacking forum.
Bleeping Computer: China-based threat actors have been targeting Australian government agencies and wind turbine fleets in the South China Sea by directing select individuals to a fake impersonating an Australian news media outlet.
IT News: Australia’s competition watchdog has partnered with the corporate regulator to trial automated takedowns of websites hosting phishing and other scams.
it News: As many as 50,000 members of Tasmanian-based industry super fund Spirit Super may have had their sensitive personal information compromised after a phishing attack earlier this month.
Money Management: Appearing at FINSIA's ‘The Regulators’ event, ASIC commissioner, Cathie Armour, said the case of RI Advice has brought cybersecurity into the public eye as it was the first of its kind in Australia.
