The Latest Breaking News from Australian Cyber Security Centre

Energy giant took weeks to respond to major data breach

Almost one million Origin Energy customers are being warned about potential scam activity after their data was leaked in a suspected hack.

AAP · Jul 28

Qantas Says 6M Customers’ Data May Have Been Compromised In ‘Significant’ Cyberattack

Qantas has cautioned a "significant" proportion of data may have been stolen, including some customers' names, phone numbers, and frequent flyer numbers.

Pedestrian.tv · Jul 2, 2025

Stolen IVF patients' personal data shared on dark web

The stolen personal information of major IVF provider Genea's patients have hit the dark web as the company scrambles to limit the damage.

AAP · Feb 26, 2025

Tasmanian govt refers potential data breach to police

The Tasmanian government is continuing to investigate a data breach involving a third party file transfer service.

AAP · Apr 2, 2023

Latitude hack now under state investigation as customers struggle to protect their accounts

Latitude Financial has revealed that a cyber attack that hit the company last week is now under investigation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP). The company said on 16 March that it had detected unusual activity on its systems. Today, it confirmed that the activity is a sophisticated and malicious…

IT Pro · Mar 20, 2023

Black and White Cabs booking service offline after cyber attack

The company says a CryptoLocker virus has infiltrated its network, and it has reported the attack to the Australian Cyber Security Centre.

ABC News · Feb 2, 2023

Australian special forces member allegedly stole and published personal data of intelligence official

ADF is investigating alleged theft and use of cybertools to hack private accounts of Australian serving with overseas intelligence organisation

The Guardian - AU · Nov 17, 2022

Just 25% of businesses are insured against cyber attacks. Here's why

In the past financial year, the Australian Cyber Security Centre received 76,000 cyber-crime reports – on average, one every seven minutes. The year before, it was a report every eight minutes. The year before that, every ten minutes.

The Conversation · Nov 8, 2022

Business urged to step up on cyber threat

Australia's cyber security agency reports a significant increase in the number of attacks from online criminals, with everyone urged to be vigilant.

AAP · Nov 3, 2022

Disability group says sorry after cyber hack

The affected individual said they had also been caught in the Optus hack and had done everything possible to protect their information by various methods including changing passwords. They had gone to Service NSW at Wallsend for new driver's licence number after the Lifestyle Solutions hack but were told it…

Newcastle Herald · Oct 3, 2022