Latest Data Breach 2024 In Australia. Australia's cyber spy agency — the australian signals directorate — says the country is regularly targeted by cybercriminals and acknowledges the role access brokers play. The australian labor party suffered a major government data breach, resulting in the theft of millions of files from key departments.

Earlier in march, a data breach broker dumped online a full cache of 73 million customer records to a known cybercrime forum. This is the highest number of notifications since july to december 2020 and an increase of nine per cent from the second.