Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Dfat Australia accidentally compromised the personal contact details of 2,727 stranded overseas people in a data security incident.

The foreign department informed and apologized from the impacted persons and conformed that no other personal information was disclosed in the attack.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/sep/30/data-breach-dfat-reveals-email-addresses-of-vulnerable-australians-stranded-overseas

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/department-of-foreign-affairs-and-trade

"id": "aus23366422",
"linkid": "department-of-foreign-affairs-and-trade",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "10/2020",
"severity": "80",
"impact": "7",
"explanation": "Attack that could injure or kill people"

{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 2727,
                        'industry': 'Public Administration',
                        'location': 'Australia',
                        'name': 'Dfat Australia',
                        'type': 'Government'}],
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 2727,
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Personal contact details']},
 'description': 'Dfat Australia accidentally compromised the personal contact '
                'details of 2,727 stranded overseas people in a data security '
                'incident.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Personal contact details']},
 'response': {'communication_strategy': ['Informed and apologized to impacted '
                                         'persons']},
 'title': 'Data Security Incident at Dfat Australia',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}