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Centrelink (Services Australia)

4 Jun 2026 · National · Government & Public Sector
Data Breach CRITICAL ⚠ Unverified

What happened

An underground cybercrime forum listing asserted the successful exploitation of an administrative dataset originating from Centrelink's internal "Advice of Death" reporting workflow. Threat actor "2019" claims the exposure of over 2,100 highly sensitive records, allegedly encompassing deceased citizen metrics, national healthcare identifiers, social security reference numbers, relationship statuses, and explicit contact PII belonging to executors and next-of-kin.

Incident details

Organisation
Centrelink (Services Australia)
Date
4 Jun 2026
Attack type
Data Breach
Severity
CRITICAL
Sector
Government & Public Sector
State
National
Records affected
2100
Threat actor
2019

Source

cyberdaily.au ↗
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