Cyber Crime

A Perth man is released on strict bail conditions after appearing in court accused of starting up "evil twin" wi-fi networks, to get the personal details of users at multiple locations, including airports across Australia.

In a major legal milestone for Operation Ironside cases around the country, SA's Court of Appeal rules millions of messages sent and received across the encrypted AN0M — which was deliberately placed by police in the hands of alleged criminals — were lawfully obtained.

Ticketmaster says a third-party database containing personal information of some of its customers has illegally accessed. The breach affects customers who bought tickets to events in North America.

Lee fought the financial ombudsman all the way to the federal court when scammers stole his super. Despite winning he only got some money back and after legal fees he's worse off.

After 1,901 days in prison, Julian Assange could soon be a free man after striking a plea deal with the United States Government.

Julian Assange's family plan to sit back and have some beer and champagne should all go to plan and he is soon back in Australia.

Julian Assange has left the United Kingdom and will plead guilty to espionage. The deal marks a new chapter in a long-running saga that saw a Townsville kid take on the United States Department of Justice. 

Cyber safety experts say the ability to create fake sexually explicit images has become frighteningly easy in the last couple of years.

Experts say Australian school students are at risk of sexual exploitation as AI deep fake pornographic image platforms become more common.

Only one person from the nefarious hacking syndicate responsible for Ticketmaster's data breach has ever been convicted for cyber crime. What are the chances anyone goes to jail over this latest hack?

In what could be a costly blunder by health insurer Medibank, the Australian Information Commissioner alleges it knew about "serious deficiencies" in its IT security before hackers plundered the sensitive data of almost 10 million customers.

ACMA claims Optus should have known about a flaw in its system four years before the cyber attack that stole millions of Australians' data, but failed to fix it.

The OAIC alleges Medibank failed to act on multiple reports of vulnerabilities in its cyber security framework before a lack of multi-factor authentication led to a major data hack of nearly 9.7 million past and current customers.

Scammers are using loyalty point programs as the latest way to try to trick you. To keep you safe, here are the common signs to watch out for. 

Even if a data breach doesn't end with someone using your credit card details, that doesn't mean you're in the clear.

In 2022 the private health insurer was exposed to a cyber-attack and the personal details of 9.7 million customers were released on the dark web.

Doctors and pharmacists named in a sample of stolen MediSecure data up for sale on the dark web say they are yet to be contacted by the company despite their information being available online for over a week.

The social media company said the attack took place through the platform's direct-messaging feature, without sharing further information about the nature of the hack. 

According to Ticketmaster's public filing, the company first identified "unauthorised activity" on May 20, a week before the post on social media.

The company says it has secure encryption methods in place for customer passwords, and no customer accounts or payment details had been compromised in the "cyber incident".

Four people are arrested and more than 2,000 internet domains across the globe are seized as part of an international crackdown on cybercrime, with police warning more action is to come.

An international syndicate that uses a Pokémon avatar claims to be behind a major Ticketmaster cyber attack, and it's not the first time the group has taken aim at high-profile companies with vast customer databases. 

Around 2 million Australians may be caught up in the Ticketmaster hack. Here's what you should be looking out for and how to protect yourself from hackers and scammers.

The health company at the centre of a cyber attack asks the federal government for a bailout, as personal information about some Australians is posted for sale online.

The details of millions of Optus customers were exposed when an offshore actor hacked its company database two years ago.