Australia Inc roiled by raft of cyberattacks since late 2022
Updates to add IPH, Latitude Group, and CBA
March 16 (Reuters) -Australian firms have suffered a flood of cyberattacks, putting the spotlight on country's understaffed cybersecurity industry which experts say seems ill-equipped to tackle such hacks, thus endangering sensitive information of millions of people. nL1N32000S
Here is a list of companies that have been hit by data breaches since September last year:
OPTUS
Australia's second-largest mobile operator and a unit of Singapore Telecommunications STEL.SI was the first to report a data breach that affected up to 10 million customers, about 40% of the nation's population. The data exposed included home addresses, drivers' licences and passport numbers.
MEDIBANK
Health insurer Medibank Private MPL.AX, which covers about one-sixth of Australians, said personal and significant amounts of health claims data of around 9.7 million of its current and former customers was compromised, forcing it to flag a hit to earnings and withdraw forecast for a key metric.
WOOLWORTHS
Australia's biggest grocer Woolworths Group Ltd WOW.AX said its majority-owned online retailer MyDeal identified that a "compromised user credential" was used to access its systems, exposing email addresses, phone numbers and delivery addresses of about 2.2 million customers.
AUSTRALIAN CLINICAL LABS
Australian Clinical Labs Ltd ACL.AX, one of the country's largest pathology providers, said unit Medlab suffered a breach that exposed data of about 223,000 patients.
TELSTRA
Australia's largest telecoms operator Telstra TLS.AX in early October suffered what it called a small data breach, which exposed data of about 30,000 current and former employees dating back to 2017.
On Dec. 11, Telstra said 132,000 customers were affected by an internal error which led to the disclosure of certain customer details.
DAILOG
IT services consulting firm Dailog, another unit of Singapore Telecommunications STEL.SI, said it faced a cyber attack that potentially affected 1,000 current and former employees and fewer than 20 clients.
FORCENET
Australia's Assistant Minister For Defence Matt Thistlethwaite said hackers targeted a communications platform used by the country's military personnel and defence staff with a ransomware attack but that no data was compromised.
BWX
Skin and hair care products maker BWX Limited said a malicious code was "unlawfully" entered onto one of its websites that may have compromised credit card numbers and expiry dates of about 2,500 customers.
TPG TELECOM
Australia's No.2 internet service provider TPG Telecom TPG.AX said it had been notified of unauthorised access to a hosted exchange service that hosts email accounts of up to 15,000 business customers.
CBA
Commonwealth Bank of Australia CBA.AX said its Indonesian unit, PT Bank Commonwealth (PTBC), had been hit by a cyber incident involving unauthorised access of a web-based software application used for project management.
IPH
Australian intellectual property services provider IPH Ltd IPH.AX said it had detected unauthorised access to a portion of its IT environment, compromising information including administrative documents and some client documents.
LATITUDE
Australian digital payments and lending firm Latitude Group Holdings Ltd LFS.AX said a hacker had stolen personal information held by two service providers, compromising about 103,000 identification documents and 225,000 customer records.
Compiled by Jaskiran Singh, Rishav Chatterjee and Roushni Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips and Rashmi Aich
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