An Australian governmental body in charge of monitoring privacy breaches has fallen victim to a cyber attack following the hacking of one of the agency’s law firms.
Data from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) was stolen by Russian cybercriminal BlackCat, also known as AlphV, after the hacking group infiltrated the database of HWL Ebsworth.
HWL Ebsworth is one of Australia’s largest commercial law firms and provides the OAIC with professional services.
This comes after four terabytes worth of company information, including employee details, were stolen by AlphV in April, with approximately 1.45 terabytes of sensitive information allegedly published by the hacking grouping on the dark web on June 8. However, it is unclear what data has been published, as HWL Ebsworth has a number of governmental and corporate clients….