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Mormon Church reveals data breach seven months after incident transpired
By Zach Marzouk published
News The church said that federal authorities suspect the breach was part of a pattern of state-sponsored cyber attacks

Toyota discovers five-year-old email leak, customers at risk of phishing attacks
By Rory Bathgate published
News Security experts have said the company has no way of knowing whether the emails were accessed

Second Singtel subsidiary breach in a month sees customer and client data leaked
By Rory Bathgate published
News The incident at Singtel subsidiary Dialog follows the earlier breach at Singtel-owned Optus, Australia's second-largest telco

Intel Alder Lake chips safe from novel exploits following source code leak, experts say
By Rory Bathgate published
News The mystery surrounding how the code was leaked is a more interesting story, experts told IT Pro, despite others branding the incident "scary"

Meta notifies around 1 million Facebook users of potential compromise through malicious apps
By Connor Jones published
News The vast majority of apps targeting iOS users appeared to be genuine apps for managing business functions such as advertising and analytics

Telstra suffers 'sizeable' data breach, mandates two-step security upgrade
By Zach Marzouk published
News The breach affected around 30,000 past and present employees, with their information being posted in the same forum that the Optus attackers used

'Systemic ID problems for 10 million Australians’ after Optus breach, warns minister
By Rory Bathgate published
News The telco giant's response to its 22 September breach has brought on harsh criticism, and the company has now handed over its breach investigation to Deloitte

Australia looks to amend privacy rules following Optus data breach
By Praharsha Anand published
News The breach is currently being investigated by the Australian Federal Police
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