Sky News Australia recently suffered a cyber security breach in an cyber incident with a third-party provider Frontier Software.
The attack compromised their personal payroll information of 500 current and former employees of the company.
The compromised data includes names, home and email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, tax file numbers, salaries, payroll IDs and superannuation fund details.
The news agency no longer uses Frontier as its payroll service provider.
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/sky-news
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"type": "Breach",
"date": "02/2022",
"severity": "90",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Media and Entertainment',
'location': 'Australia',
'name': 'Sky News Australia',
'type': 'Media Company'}],
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'personally_identifiable_information': 'Yes',
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
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'description': 'Sky News Australia suffered a cyber security breach involving '
'a third-party provider, Frontier Software. The attack '
'compromised personal payroll information of 500 current and '
'former employees.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['names',
'home addresses',
'email addresses',
'telephone numbers',
'dates of birth',
'tax file numbers',
'salaries',
'payroll IDs',
'superannuation fund details']},
'title': 'Sky News Australia Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}