Precedent Communications, the contractor behind Australia’s biggest-ever data breach, has been liquidated 13 months after the incident went public.
It was revealed in October 2016 that the personal records of 550,000 donors to the Red Cross Blood Service were exposed online, including names, gender, physical and email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and countries of birth.
The breach was discovered when an anonymous individual came across a 1.74GB file containing 1.28 million records while scanning IP address ranges for publicly exposed web servers containing .sql files. The file also included donors’ sensitive medical information such as blood type and instances of high-risk sexual behaviour.
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Read the full article at: https://www.crn.com.au/news/precedent-communications-the-contractor-behind-australias-biggest-data-breach-goes-into-liquidation-479277
