This year we’ve seen a constant raid on anything from small to large organisations with no sign of slowing down. In October the breaches continue – we’ve collated the most important breaches and incidents from: Qantas, Strike, The Internet Archive and MoneyGram. Read on to find out more.

Qantas

Recently two ex-employees went rouge and took advantage of their role, abusing their power to steal over 800 bookings, a host of passport data and customer frequent flyer points. Some customers complained that they’d have points disappear from their accounts, and others said they could access other people’s accounts and bookings they didn’t know! Rumors have also surfaced around the implications of the incident with other airlines within the “Oneworld Alliance”. This alliance includes 15 other large airlines that may have been impacted from the incident – no statement has been made about how far reaching the incident has gone. Whilst this was not the result of a cyberattack, it shows how the wrong person in the right place can access, breach and expose the data of thousands of people.

Strike Bowling

A recent attack on the aussie entertainment company “Funlab” (which owns Strike Bowling) has officially confirmed it was the victim of a ransomware attack. The company does not believe customer data was stolen but has yet to formally confirm this.That said, some employee data was compromised but it’s likely that the effects of this are not far reaching and that Funlab has already reached out to the authorities to help investigate. Expect to see another official statement in the near future.

Money Gram

MoneyGram recently confirmed a significant data breach following a week-long service outage, during which hackers accessed customers’ sensitive data, including bank account details, transaction information, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, birthdays and government issued identification documents like licences. The breach has impacted an unconfirmed number of customers worldwide, but it has said to be in the millions. MoneyGram are now offering affected U.S. customers free Equifax credit monitoring and cooperating with authorities to investigate the incident further.

The Internet Archive

Ever heard of “The Internet Archive”? It’s the world’s biggest digital library and it’s recently experienced a catastrophic data breach impacting 31million records. At first, the attack looked more like a scare tactic as the hackers used a technique called DDoS – which seeks to disrupt normal operating services (in this case they shut down the website). Generally speaking, this is not an indication of a data breach, however the company recently confirmed that data was exposed including emails, screen names and passwords.

What can i do if my data has been breached?

You can check if your email address or phone number has been leaked with our free tool here. If your data has been breached, contact ID Care.