following experimental quantum computing these past five years (say, since Google’s original quantum supremacy milestone in 2019), there’s no particular shock here. Since 2019, Google has roughly doubled the number of qubits on its chip and, more...

in an article authored by Royal Holloway. “We have been conducting security and privacy research on this topic since 2019. Apart from our system studies, our user studies also highlight that end-users are indeed concerned about their intimate and...

and employee salary and 401(k) documents. The data appears to be relatively recent, with documents variously dated between 2019 and 2023, while several of the passports are still valid. The Watergate Hotel was made famous in 1972 after then-president...

stolen data as proof. Morpheus specifically listed Arrotex Pharmaceuticals – one of DBG Health’s business units, created in 2019 via a merger between Apotex Australia and Arrow Pharmaceuticals – as the victim, saying that parties interested in learning...

alongside several spreadsheets and documents; however, while it was once a going concern, Race Trakka cancelled its ABN in 2019 and was deregistered by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in 2023. According to the LinkedIn...

by a hacker behind a string of attacks on Aussie government agencies and businesses. The threat actor, who calls themselves 2019, posted details of data they allege was stolen from Hot Toner Australia, a company that specialises in printer consumables....

time, having gone through several iterations due to global law enforcement takedowns. The group was founded in September 2019 and soon became the world’s most prolific ransomware group. It uses a double-extortion model, in which the criminal group both...

Threat actor 2019 has claimed to have breached the data of more than 25,000 patients via a third-party platform – and it’s already been sold on a hacking forum. The medical records, including Medicare numbers and DVA numbers, of potentially more than...

Prolific hacker 2019 claims hack of a luxury Kiwi real estate firm, but the company says the hacker is overstating the extent of the breach. A hacker responsible for a string of data breaches impacting Australian organisations has turned their...

Threat actor 2019 posts alleged National Portrait Gallery customer and client data to undergound hacking forum; names, emails, and location data potentially compromised. Threat actor 2019 posts alleged National Portrait Gallery customer and client data...

independent stockists. The company was listed in a post on an infamous hacking forum by almost equally infamous threat actor 2019, who claimed to have stolen 339,100 customer records. According to the post, the data includes first names, postal...

told Cyber Daily. Who is AckLine? AckLine is a frequent poster on the same forum frequented by the hacker known as 2019, who has targeted several high-profile Australian victims in recent weeks. AckLine joined the forum – which Cyber Daily will not name...

of Australian estate agent MMJ Real Estate has potentially been exposed in a data breach. A hacker calling themselves 2019 – the same threat actor behind breaches of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) and the Australian Centre for the...

you”. The email also featured what appeared to be a link to a threat forum page for the growingly infamous threat actor 2019. Hollingworth’s email mentioned his name, suggesting the emails were targeted. Cyber Daily understands that other Australian...

International Film Festival has published the alleged data of more than 25,000 ACMI customers. A hacker going by the name of 2019 has published what they claim is the personal data of more than 25,000 customers of the Australian Centre for the Moving...

Australian organisations is claiming to have added another victim to their growing list of data breaches. The threat actor, 2019, a prominent member of a popular underground hacking forum, said in a 3 June post that they had gained access to the data of...

Almost 30,000 lines of court data have potentially been compromised in a breach carried out by a prominent hacker, 2019. Court Services Victoria has confirmed it is responding to a “data security incident” after a prolific hacker published a raft of...

service Centrelink, a claim Centrelink says is false. As detected by threat researcher Dark Web Informer, the threat actor 2019 listed Centrelink on a cyber crime forum overnight. Based on the listing and the researcher’s findings, the data was...

in South Brisbane, was mentioned in a for-sale post on a popular underground hacking forum by a hacker known as 2019. According to the threat actor, they are in possession of more than 31,000 “sensitive and confidential documents” that include patient...

had a total student enrolment in 2022 of 18,934 and employs more than 4,000 staff. The university suffered a data breach in 2019 that impacted 19 years’ worth of personal data from both students and teachers. According to comments from intelligence...