Factbox-Australia Inc roiled by raft of cyberattacks this yr By Reuters

(Reuters) – Australian companies have suffered a flood of cyberattacks, placing the highlight on nation’s understaffed cybersecurity business which specialists say appears ill-equipped to deal with such hacks, thus endangering delicate info of tens of millions of individuals.

Here’s a listing of firms which have been hit by knowledge breaches thus far this yr:

OPTUS

Australia’s second-largest cellular operator and a unit of Singapore Telecommunications was the primary to report a knowledge breach that affected as much as 10 million clients, about 40% of the nation’s inhabitants. The information uncovered included dwelling addresses, drivers’ licences and passport numbers.

MEDIBANK

Well being insurer Medibank Non-public, which covers about one-sixth of Australians, mentioned private and vital quantities of well being claims knowledge of round 9.7 million of its present and former clients was compromised, forcing it to flag a success to earnings and withdraw forecast for a key metric.

WOOLWORTHS

Australia’s greatest grocer Woolworths Group Ltd mentioned its majority-owned on-line retailer MyDeal recognized {that a} “compromised consumer credential” was used to entry its techniques, exposing e mail addresses, cellphone numbers and supply addresses of about 2.2 million clients.

AUSTRALIAN CLINICAL LABS

Australian Medical Labs Ltd, one of many nation’s largest pathology suppliers, mentioned unit Medlab suffered a breach that uncovered knowledge of about 223,000 sufferers.

TELSTRA

Australia’s largest telecoms operator Telstra (OTC:) suffered what it referred to as a small knowledge breach, which uncovered knowledge of about 30,000 present and former workers relationship again to 2017.

DAILOG

IT providers consulting agency Dailog, one other unit of Singapore Telecommunications, mentioned it confronted a cyber assault that doubtlessly affected 1,000 present and former workers and fewer than 20 shoppers.

FORCENET

Australia’s Assistant Minister For Defence Matt Thistlethwaite mentioned hackers focused a communications platform utilized by the nation’s navy personnel and defence employees with a ransomware assault however that no knowledge was compromised.

BWX

Pores and skin and hair care merchandise maker BWX Restricted mentioned a malicious code was “unlawfully” entered onto one in all its web sites which will have compromised bank card numbers and expiry dates of about 2,500 clients.