Harcourts Real Estate

Australian real estate agency Harcourts said it suffered a cyber attack that exposed the personal information of tenants, landlords, and trades people.

An "unknown third party" had accessed its rental property database and exposed information including full name, age, email address, home address, copy of signature, phone number, photo identification and bank details for both tenants and landlords and tradespeople.

Source: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/advocates-had-warned-of-the-dangers-of-a-real-estate-data-breach-it-just-happened/6mlieq0g0

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

"id": "har221321222",
"linkid": "harcourts",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "11/2022",
"severity": "80",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Real Estate',
                        'location': 'Australia',
                        'name': 'Harcourts',
                        'type': 'Real Estate Agency'}],
 'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': ['Full name',
                                                         'Age',
                                                         'Email address',
                                                         'Home address',
                                                         'Copy of signature',
                                                         'Phone number',
                                                         'Photo '
                                                         'identification'],
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Personal Information',
                                              'Bank Details']},
 'description': 'Australian real estate agency Harcourts suffered a cyber '
                'attack that exposed the personal information of tenants, '
                'landlords, and tradespeople.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Full name',
                                 'Age',
                                 'Email address',
                                 'Home address',
                                 'Copy of signature',
                                 'Phone number',
                                 'Photo identification',
                                 'Bank details']},
 'threat_actor': 'Unknown third party',
 'title': 'Harcourts Cyber Attack',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}