ACCC

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission suffered a privacy breach after it left an unknown quantity of personal email addresses accessible online.

Its information alert services for the Recalls Australia, Product Safety Australia, SCAMwatch and ACCC Public Registers websites inadvertently made accessible the addresses of subscribers.

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/au-accc-admits-to-personal-data-breach/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/acccgovau

"id": "acc2351211222",
"linkid": "acccgovau",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "04/2014",
"severity": "50",
"impact": "1",
"explanation": "Attack without any consequences"

{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Consumer Protection',
                        'location': 'Australia',
                        'name': 'Australian Competition & Consumer Commission',
                        'type': 'Government Agency'}],
 'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': ['personal email '
                                                         'addresses'],
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['personal email addresses']},
 'description': 'The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission left an '
                'unknown quantity of personal email addresses accessible '
                'online through its information alert services for the Recalls '
                'Australia, Product Safety Australia, SCAMwatch and ACCC '
                'Public Registers websites.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['personal email addresses'],
            'systems_affected': ['Recalls Australia',
                                 'Product Safety Australia',
                                 'SCAMwatch',
                                 'ACCC Public Registers']},
 'title': 'ACCC Privacy Breach',
 'type': 'Privacy Breach'}