A major data breach could have reportedly affected more than a million individuals in Australia who visited pubs and clubs, exposing critical information.
The driver's licenses of over a million people who frequented bars and clubs in Australia, Asia, and the US, according to haveibeenoutaboxed.com, are allegedly hacked.
Home addresses, signatures, club membership information, birthdays, phone numbers, timestamps of club visits, and slot machine usage are all included; however, at this point, the majority of the personally identifiable information has been removed.
The gaming and hospitality products that OutABox, an Australian IT business, sells to select Clubs NSW locations, have been linked to a data breach.
This is because an overseas development team claims they have not been paid for work they finished more than a year ago.
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The official statement available on the website states that a group of offshore developers from the Philippines was hired by Outabox, a business owned by Glenn James, Dalbir Singh, and Darren Blinn, to create a set of software systems.
They installed these devices at casinos and nightclubs in the US, Australia, and Asia and charged each customer for using them.
The developers were granted access to these gaming establishments' back-end systems, charged with keeping them maintained, and told to back up their data to the cloud.
Without any supervision from Outabox, raw data was made available to developers. The developers were abruptly cut off by Outabox and were not paid for their labor of a year and a half.
OutABox Worries
According to a representative for ClubsNSW, they are extremely "concerned" about the security of customer information that could have been hacked in the OutABox incident.
Although little evidence is now available, the spokesman acknowledges that the personal data of club patrons who utilize this IT supplier may have been compromised.
It is known that customers frequently utilized the affected software to log in during the COVID-19 epidemic. To prevent being the subject of security threats, Clubs NSW asks club patrons to scrutinize emails and messages with additional caution in the upcoming days.
Australia's Cyberattack Incidents
The significant data breach follows a report by the Australian Anti-Scam Centre that revealed scammers cost Australians an astounding $2.3 billion in 2023 and that over 601,000 incidents had been reported to the authorities.
Online fraud continues to be a problem, as evidenced by the 18.5% increase in reported frauds despite a 13.1% drop in losses from the previous year.
The most expensive were found to be investment scams, which caused an astounding $1.3 billion in losses. The money lost to remote access scams was $256 million, while romance scams lost $201.1 million.
The disproportionate effect on individuals over 65 is especially concerning since their reported losses rose 13.3%, primarily due to investment fraud.
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