Commonwealth Bank

The Commonwealth Bank, the largest bank in Australia, revealed a significant security breach that resulted in the exposure of nearly 20 million clients' financial information.

The organisation apologised for any concern this incident may have caused and reassured the customers that they had taken the appropriate precautions to protect their information.

The impacted customers' accounts are still being watched over by the Commonwealth Bank, which is offering them complete protection against fraud and other illicit activity.

The Commonwealth Bank was impacted by a series of unfavourable occurrences, the last of which is the case.

Source: https://securityaffairs.com/72103/data-breach/commonwealth-bank-data-exposure.html

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

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"type": "Breach",
"date": "05/2018",
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"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization’s existence"

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