Over 20,000 Australian super fund accounts breached, savings stolen
Major Australian superannuation funds were hit by credential stuffing attacks that took over members' accounts. More than 20,000 accounts were breached, and some members' retirement savings were stolen.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- More than 20,000 accounts breached and some members' retirement savings stolen
- Cause / method
- Credential stuffing attacks
- Location
- Australia
Timeline
- Unauthorised access to Australian superannuation members' accounts and the theft of retirement savings came to light.
- It was confirmed that credential stuffing attacks on major super funds had breached more than 20,000 accounts and that some funds had been stolen.
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