Kalkine Media is an ASX Share Market news and research firm, which aims to deliver investment insights to its customers using its own technology platform. The firm operates in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, the UK, and the USA.
Over the weekend (6 June), threat actor 2019 listed Kalkine Media on an infamous cyber crime forum, claiming to have stolen the personal data of over 2,900 customers.
According to the listing, allegedly stolen data includes customer names, ID numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, call status details, call ID details and more. According to threat researcher Dark Web Informer, some details pertain to what appears to be agentic AI call recordings.
Threat actor 2019 posted a sample of the data and included a download link, suggesting that the data is not for sale but is freely available to other cyber criminals on the forum.
Cyber Daily has reached out to Kalkine for more information and is currently awaiting a response.
Who is 2019?
The threat actor 2019 is a relatively new player in the cyber crime space, having appeared in January 2026.
Of late, the threat actor has listed a large number of Australian victims, including MMJ Real Estate, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), and Centrelink; however, Services Australia denied the Centrelink incident.
The threat actor also targets entities in the US, Italy, France and New Zealand.
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