While a handful of consecutive hacks against established brands could signal an elevated interest in Australian companies, Alex Hamerstone, advisory solutions director at cybersecurity firm TrustedSec, thinks that’s hardly the case. Cybercriminals may have compromised a dataset from ForceNet, Australia’s defense e-communications platform. IT services provider Dialog, Australia’s largest health insurance company Medibank Private, and Woolworths subsidiary in Australia, MyDeal, all experienced cyberattacks in the weeks after. Several days later, Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra said that details of 30k of the company’s staff members were leaked. First, Optus, Australia’s second-largest telecoms provider, was hit, with millions losing passport and driver’s license numbers. The last couple of months were ripe with news about successfully breached Australian companies. Optus and Medibank hacks resulted from heightened interest in Australia’s cyberspace, not the other way around.
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