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Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)

15 Dec 2018 · National · Finance & Insurance

Data Leak / Misconfiguration CRITICAL ✓ Verified

What happened

Historically confirmed via investigative journalism in late 2018; CBA admitted to a catastrophic data handling incident where physical magnetic data backup tapes containing 15 years of customer transactional history and account statements were lost during a decommission loop.

Incident details

Organisation

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)

Date

15 Dec 2018

Attack type

Data Leak / Misconfiguration

Severity

CRITICAL

Sector

Finance & Insurance

State

National

Records affected

19800000

Threat actor

Human Error

Source

abc.net.au ↗

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