Hacker news headlines

The personal data of thousands of people has been stolen after the Victorian Environmental Protection Authority's (EPA) external contact centre was hacked.

The hacks against Australian private and public networks date back years, officials say.

Yeah, nah thanks - scammers are trying to mimic Australian slang to trick phone users, Telstra reckons.

The retailer has reached out to customers with an email confirming the breach, and advice on how to proceed.

"Cybercriminals are becoming smart. They are becoming more and more sophisticated."

A notorious hacker has claimed to have stolen the personal data of more than half a billion Ticketmaster customers, likely including Australians.

The company advertises itself as one of the largest non-banking lenders in the country.

The emails included login information such as user names and passwords, US authorities said.

Australian researchers have helped map out the world of cyberattacks and hacking.

The motives for recent attacks on Medibank and Optus go far beyond theft of data and the potential for financial extortion.

ASIO has claimed an unnamed former politician was recruited by foreign spies.

Ticketek is bracing for ticket chaos at the MCG and Accor Stadium as nasty plots hatched by scammers months in advance are fully realised.

The health insurer said today it has finished an external investigation into last year's cyberattack.

Exclusive: He was good. Very good, in fact. But the Medibank hacker had a weakness: his ego.

JPMorgan Chase revealed it has fought more than double the number of daily hacking attempts as last year.

Residents in some of Sydney's richest neighbourhoods may have had their personal information and some credit card details stolen in a pre-Christmas hack

A stolen trove of passwords released on the dark web reveals a dangerous trend in how Aussies choose their passwords.

The South Australian government has been accused of a cover up after a hack two months ago, impacting public sector workers' super information, only came to light this week.

The popular Australian shop told customers they wanted to get "on the front foot".

China-based hackers have breached email accounts at two-dozen organisations, including some US government agencies, in an apparent spying campaign aimed at acquiring sensitive information, according to statements from Microsoft and the White House.

Aussies are being urged to remain vigilant in the lead up to tax time as new and "aggressive" scams emerge claiming to be from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).

That hack compromised tens of thousands of computers globally.

A lawyer for Prince Harry finished setting out the royal's case against a newspaper publisher by quizzing a former tabloid reporter about information inserted into stories by then-editor Piers Morgan.

The Duke of Sussex said he would feel an 'injustice' if his claims of phone hacking were dismissed by the judge.

Harry acknowledged he couldn't recall specific articles he was complaining about, saying "every single article has caused me distress".

Prince Harry's phone hacking trial against the publisher of the Daily Mirror has kicked off without him present in court — and the judge was not happy.

If he enters the witness stand, Harry will be the first senior British royal to give evidence in court for more than 130 years.

Beijing has sternly rejected the report that government-backed hackers are targeting American infrastructure.

A joint Australia-New Zealand investigation has been launched after the theft of personal information from consumer finance giant Latitude Group earlier this year.

Australians are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks, with hackers conducting 921 password attacks every second, a 74 per cent increase from two years ago.

Sharon received a notification back in 2020 that someone was attempting to access her personal MyGov account. Despite changing her password immediately. It was too late.

The array of deeply intimate financial information today confirmed as stolen has left hundreds of thousands of Australians vulnerable to blackmail, extortion and theft.

One of Australia's most important companies has claimed that banning cyber ransoms could end up costing lives.

Shoppers who applied for a credit card from Coles in 2018 or earlier have been caught up in the hack on Latitude.

Tech security experts say Australians travelling this Easter should never use public phone chargers such as those installed at airports.

Public USB stations like the kind found at shopping centres and airports are being used by bad actors to spread malware and monitoring software.

When the moment came, the spies and sleuths had only minutes to help seize the money before it could be laundered to safety.

Ten Australians have been arrested and charged as part of an international police sting on a website selling stolen account logins.

The forum has played a key role in giving cybercriminals access to hacked computers for carrying out identity theft and ransomware attacks.

Millions of Australians have had their data compromised in recent major cyber attacks and while the crime may be committed virtually, it can have very real consequences for victims.

The scale of the hack has grown dramatically since it was first revealed, and almost 8 million passports have now been confirmed as stolen.

The tech giant issued a message after developers identified eight high-risk bugs that cyber criminals could exploit.

An Australian finance company said it has had the data of over 300,000 customers stolen in a "sophisticated and malicious cyberattack."

Jenny Singe was left feeling "distressed" after receiving Facebook messages from her late-husband who passed away two years ago.

Amid a steep rise in impersonation scams, the National Australia Bank (NAB) has unveiled new plans to increase customer protection.

A Russian millionaire with ties to the Kremlin was convicted of participating in an elaborate $128 million insider trading scheme using secret and stolen information from companies such as Microsoft.

After the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo launched a cartoon contest to mock Iran's ruling cleric, a state-backed Iranian cyber unit struck back with a hack-and-leak campaign.

The moves come amid fears data collected on the app could be accessed by the Chinese government.

A Sydney man will likely be deported interstate to face fraud charges after allegedly scamming an elderly Queenslander out of $30,000.

A hacker who reportedly posed as the CEO of a financial institution claims to have obtained access to the more than 80,000-member database of InfraGard, an FBI-run outreach program.