Malaysia, Australia Investigate Massive Commercial, Governmental Data Breaches

In Australia, personal records of almost 50,000 workers at several government agencies and companies were left unsecured by a third-party contractor in one of the country's worst data breaches, according to a report Thursday by iTnews.Backup databases of employee records including names, passwo...

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Published in:Insurance Journal 2017-11
Main Authors: Shamim, Adam, Burgess, Matthew, Lee, Yoolim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cellular telephones
Cybercrime
Cybersecurity
Data integrity
Hackers
Investigations
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Summary:In Australia, personal records of almost 50,000 workers at several government agencies and companies were left unsecured by a third-party contractor in one of the country's worst data breaches, according to a report Thursday by iTnews.Backup databases of employee records including names, passwords, salaries and some credit card numbers were accessible after the misconfiguration of an Amazon.com Inc. cloud storage product, it said. "The Australian Cyber Security Centre was alerted to the breach in the first week of October and immediately contacted the external contractor to secure the information and remove the vulnerability," the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet said in statement on Thursday.
ISSN:0020-4714