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Sydney Tools

17 Mar 2025 · NSW · Retail & E-Commerce
Data Breach MEDIUM ✓ Verified

What happened

Industrial hardware retailer Sydney Tools left a primary cloud database unprotected and accessible to the public internet without password authentication. The exposed tables contained over 34,000,000 individual historical transactional logs, staff employment records, customer phone numbers, and names.

Incident details

Organisation
Sydney Tools
Date
17 Mar 2025
Attack type
Data Breach
Severity
MEDIUM
Sector
Retail & E-Commerce
State
NSW
Records affected
34000000
Threat actor
Human Error

Source

cyberdaily.au ↗
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