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1 Jan 2024 · National · Government & Public Sector
Data Breach CRITICAL ✓ Verified

What happened

High-profile public sector security breach involving an outsourced file-sharing system used by the Australian Labor Party. The automated extraction resulted in the theft of millions of historical administrative files across multiple overlapping government operational departments.

Incident details

Organisation
Labour
Date
1 Jan 2024
Attack type
Data Breach
Severity
CRITICAL
Sector
Government & Public Sector
State
National
Records affected
Millions alleged
Threat actor
Unknown

Source

thewest.com.au ↗
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