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DP World Australia

🇦🇺 Australia (national ports) · DP World Australia · Record AU-2023-0320
○ Reported — awaiting official confirmation
Reported — awaiting official confirmation. The facts below are drawn from the organisation's own disclosure and credible reporting. Figures are as reported; unknowns are labelled, not estimated by us.
People affected
Not disclosed
Breach date
2023-11
Regulator
National Cyber Security Coordinator; OAIC
Trust tier
B · Reported

Data exposed

Personal information of current and former employees Company-confirmed

Confidence: Confirmed = regulator/court · Company-confirmed = the organisation's own disclosure · Media-reported = press. Figures without an official source are labelled, not estimated.

What happened

In November 2023 DP World Australia — which handles a large share of the country’s container freight — detected a cyberattack that forced it to suspend operations at its ports for three days. The company later confirmed that data containing personal information of current and former employees had been accessed and taken [dpw-itnews], [dpw-company].

Timeline

  • 2023-11-10 — DP World detected the incident and disconnected its Australian operations, halting landside freight movement at affected ports [dpw-itnews].
  • 2023-11 — DP World confirmed employee personal data had been stolen and continued its investigation with government agencies [dpw-company].

Current status

Under investigation. DP World did not publish a count of affected individuals, so no figure is asserted here. Data types are as confirmed by the company and reported by credible media.

Why it matters

A breach with both critical-infrastructure and personal-data dimensions: it disrupted national supply chains for days and exposed the workforce’s personal information — the kind of incident the SOCI Act regime is designed to address.

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