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- Western Sydney University data breach impacts 10,000 studentsby 9News on April 10, 2025 at 2:19 am
The university also confirmed that it had located student data on a dark web forum, posted on November 1, 2024.
- At least $500,000 stolen from Australian super fund cyberattackby 9News on April 4, 2025 at 7:50 am
Some of Australia’s biggest super funds have been compromised, with stolen passwords used to access member accounts.
- Inside a scam centre fleecing Aussies of millionsby 9News on April 1, 2025 at 12:14 am
AFP cyber-crime experts have joined forces with Philippines law enforcement to bust overseas scam centres.
- US suspends offensive cyber operations against Russia, senior official saysby 9News on March 3, 2025 at 3:36 am
The suspension is “a major blow,” the official said, especially since planning for such operations takes time and research to carry out.
- Confidential patient details published online after IVF provider hit by cyberattackby 9News on February 26, 2025 at 6:47 am
The overseas actors claiming responsibility reportedly shared screenshots of the information taken from Genea on dark net sites today.
- Test results, addresses and phone numbers at risk after IVF clinic data leakby 9News on February 24, 2025 at 5:21 am
In an email sent to clinic patients seen by 9news.com.au, Genea said the extent of the cyber incident remains unknown and it has found no evidence that bank or credit card details have been impacted.
- Leading IVF provider ‘urgently investigating’ cyber incidentby 9News on February 19, 2025 at 4:52 am
Customers are being urged to be on the lookout for scams after the provided was hit by a “suspicious” attack.
- ‘Something terrible will happen’: Warning over new phone call scamby 9News on February 3, 2025 at 6:09 am
Sophisticated scammers are impersonating government officials via emails and phone calls claiming to be from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD).
- Australia imposes sanctions on online neo-Nazi networkby 9News on February 2, 2025 at 11:32 pm
The federal government is stepping up its response to antisemitic attacks across Australia, with a white supremacist group hit with financial sanctions.
- ‘Major incident’: China-backed hackers break into US Treasuryby 9News on December 31, 2024 at 2:01 am
Officials said there was no evidence the hackers had continued access to Treasury documents and workstations.
- Hackers targeting wealthy private school students for extortionby 9News on November 19, 2024 at 11:58 pm
Australia’s cyber espionage agency is warning criminals are targeting the sensitive data of students in order to extort their parents.
- Ticketek shuts down website temporarily over security threatby 9News on November 19, 2024 at 5:07 am
“We took this action as a precautionary measure in response to system monitoring indicating a heightened threat level.”
- ‘Completely baffled’: Why some Aussies are getting sent free items in the mailby 9News on October 30, 2024 at 7:22 pm
Shredded rags, dirty plush toys and cheap pillows are just some of the bizarre items Australians are being sent in the mail as part of a scam growing in popularity.
- Fitness app Strava ‘gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders’by 9News on October 28, 2024 at 9:50 pm
The movements of US leaders can be tracked online through a fitness app their bodyguards use, an investigation by French media has revealed.
- Owner of Strike Bowling, Holey Moley targeted by ransomware attackby 9News on October 15, 2024 at 1:33 am
Funlab confirmed it is looking into a security breach after ransomware group Lynx listed the company on its leak site yesterday.
- Home buyer loses $813k in horror email scamby 9News on October 1, 2024 at 5:05 am
Cybercriminals used a fake email with just one letter different to her conveyancer’s to deceive the South Australian home buyer in May last year.
- Popular hardware chain rocked by data leakby 9News on September 19, 2024 at 11:00 pm
Investigations into the leak suggest names, email addresses, credit card data and log-in details have all been leaked.
- Australian government one of leading victims of data breaches, report findsby 9News on September 16, 2024 at 6:32 am
The Australian government reported 63 breaches in the first half of the year.
- Online criminals target young people in ‘sadistic sextortion’ crimesby 9News on September 6, 2024 at 12:54 am
Parents are being warned children as young as 12 years are being targeted to produce extreme sexual and violent content over the internet.
- Perth man jailed for sexually blackmailing hundreds of girls, young womenby 9News on August 27, 2024 at 2:28 pm
He posed as a 15-year-old YouTube star to lure them into his perverted trap then persistently blackmailed them to perform sex acts on camera.