Federal Court

1 Mar 2020 · National · Government & Public Sector

Data Breach MEDIUM ✓ Verified

What happened

Serious human administrative error within the Federal Court of Australia database resulted in the accidental web indexing and public exposure of confidential files containing the full identity parameters of sensitive protection visa applicants.

Incident details

Organisation

Federal Court

Date

1 Mar 2020

Attack type

Data Breach

Severity

MEDIUM

Sector

Government & Public Sector

State

National

Records affected

Unknown

Threat actor

Human Error

Source

abc.net.au ↗

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