How Do I Check If I’ve Been Hacked? What To Watch For? Tips To Protect Yourself.
Millions of Australians have been caught up in Data Breaches with recent reports about the Optus and Medibank data breaches bringing large and public examples to the fore.
The fore mentioned businesses are not alone. A report in the Australian Financial Review paints a much more sobering and real picture,
“fresh data from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner covering the first half of 2022 revealed it had been alerted to 396 breaches involving companies with revenue of more than $3 million.”
(Read the full report ‘Millions caught in data breaches before Optus or Medibank’ – AFR)
To understand the staggering, wide spread problem you can refer to the list on Webber Insurance Services website, which you might find you have dealt with at some stage.
The Complete List Of Data Breaches in Australia For 2018 – 2022
Easy To Understand Help
The ABC News Website has a wonderful article by Dannielle Maguire which should help to demistify somje of the problems, explaining each and also what you can do to see if you may be exposed and also how try to protect yourself or your business.
CLICK THIS LINK TO READ THE ARTICLE ON ABC NEWS
More Technical Help
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) is also a very valuable resource with thier ‘Alerts’ web page. The list is a bit more technical in that includes details about the software that businesses and personal users may use that have had attacks.
CLICK THIS LINK TO READ THE ARTICLE ON ACSC
