cyber attack

The government has promised to launch offensive attacks on online scammers who are busy fleecing innocent Australians for billions every year.

A New South Wales woman who helped a friend after they were locked out of their Facebook account ended up falling for a scam that railroaded her small business page.

A joint Australia-New Zealand investigation has been launched after the theft of personal information from consumer finance giant Latitude Group earlier this year.

Authorities are investigating the breach at the Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre in western Sydney.

A spokesperson confirmed to 9news.com.au that the company won't be making the findings of the review, or the review itself, public, sighting security concerns.

The array of deeply intimate financial information today confirmed as stolen has left hundreds of thousands of Australians vulnerable to blackmail, extortion and theft.

One of Australia's most important companies has claimed that banning cyber ransoms could end up costing lives.

More than 100,000 participants are involved in the lawsuit.

Shoppers who applied for a credit card from Coles in 2018 or earlier have been caught up in the hack on Latitude.

Public USB stations like the kind found at shopping centres and airports are being used by bad actors to spread malware and monitoring software.

The non-bank leader insisted it would not meet any of the demands.

When the moment came, the spies and sleuths had only minutes to help seize the money before it could be laundered to safety.

The forum has played a key role in giving cybercriminals access to hacked computers for carrying out identity theft and ransomware attacks.

AFE SA is conducting a "robust" investigation and issued an email today to the 2,224 impacted students who had enrolled between 2016 and 2021.

Latitude Financial Services has been slammed for holding on to historic data and a "she'll be right" attitude after the company was hit by a major data breach.

Australian apartment giant Meriton has revealed it was targeted in a cyberattack in January which affected almost 2000 people.

Millions of Australians have had their data compromised in recent major cyber attacks and while the crime may be committed virtually, it can have very real consequences for victims.

The scale of the hack has grown dramatically since it was first revealed, and almost 8 million passports have now been confirmed as stolen.

One expert has warned there will be more hacks as it's revealed the Latitude cyberattack may have affected almost eight million Australians.

The casino giant said no customer data has been compromised.

The tech giant issued a message after developers identified eight high-risk bugs that cyber criminals could exploit.

The company has identified 7.9 million Australian and New Zealand driver's licence numbers stolen.

With copies of an actual licence, a hacker can essentially apply for credit on your behalf.

Ferrari NV, the parent company of the car manufacturer, said in a press release the company was contacted by a "threat actor with a ransom demand to certain client contact details".

Latitude Financial said today the incident 'remains active' after details of 330,000 customers were stolen.

An Australian finance company said it has had the data of over 300,000 customers stolen in a "sophisticated and malicious cyberattack."

Nearly 10 million Australians had personal data exposed last October but Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin says none have fallen victim to the misuse of their data.

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The Albanese government will appoint a Coordinator for Cyber Security who will be given new powers to protect Australians from mass cyberattacks.

Popular Australian electronics retailer The Good Guys has revealed some of its customers' personal data has been stolen in a cyberattack on a third-party supplier.

Health insurance giant Medibank has posted a modest 6 per cent rise in profit despite a period damaged by the infamous cyber attack.

A Russian millionaire with ties to the Kremlin was convicted of participating in an elaborate $128 million insider trading scheme using secret and stolen information from companies such as Microsoft.

A landmark data breach complaint against private health insurer Medibank has been launched today.

Ransomware attacks have the power to make global headlines and cause losses in the millions.

A Sydney man will likely be deported interstate to face fraud charges after allegedly scamming an elderly Queenslander out of $30,000.

The shutdown means firefighters are reverting to radios and mobile phones to receive information.

A compensation claim has been lodged against health insurer Medibank over the data hack, it has confirmed.

US Secret Service accuses hacking group APT41 of raiding unemployment insurance funds and small business loan money.

AGL reported "elevated levels of suspicious activity" on its "My Account" platform on December 1.

Health insurer Medibank could face a multi-million-dollar fine after a hack that left customers' data exposed to criminals.

The worst-case scenario for Medibank customers has come to fruition with those behind the cyber attack releasing what appears to be a vast amount of the data they obtained.

Children's charity The Smith Family has been hit with a cyberattack, with some personal information of donors potentially stolen.

After days of silence the Medibank hacker, or hackers, have released more private information on the Dark Web.

The men were all allegedly assaulted and robbed by a group of teenagers in Evans Head, in five separate incidents over the last two weeks.

Medibank customers affected by last month's devastating cyber attack have begun receiving confirmation from the health insurance giant of which of their details have been stolen.

Australia's largest private health insurer has warned they too could become the target of specific spams.

It was a gut-wrenching one-two punch for New South Wales mum Kim Anesbury.

Details of people's mental health conditions are among the latest data released by hackers who stole records from the health insurer.

The "smartest and toughest" cybersecurity experts in Australia have been tasked with hunting down hackers in an overhaul of the nation's law enforcement methods.

Federal police claim a group of cyber criminals in Russia are operating like a business to carry out the Medibank attack.