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6 records in the technology sector across New Zealand and Australia.

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Neighbourly
🇳🇿 New Zealand · breach 2025-12
● Disclosed
People affected
Not disclosed
Data taken
Names, email addresses, GPS coordinates, some phone numbers, public forum posts and direct member messages; login details reportedly not included
Regulator
NZ Privacy Commissioner (notified)
Trust tier
Reported
Source: RNZ · View record →
Outabox (NSW clubs & pubs)
🇦🇺 New South Wales · breach 2024-05
● Under investigation
People affected
Not disclosed
Data taken
Facial-recognition biometrics and driver licence scans (claimed by the leak site; unverified), Signatures, home addresses and dates of birth (claimed by the leak site; unverified), Club membership and gaming-machine usage data (claimed by the leak site; unverified)
Regulator
None reported (NSW Police investigating; OAIC involvement not sourced)
Trust tier
Reported
Source: ACS Information Age · View record →
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ZircoDATA
🇦🇺 Victoria · breach 2024-02
● Disclosed
People affected
Not disclosed
Data taken
Home Affairs Free Translating Service client data: full names, dates of birth, mobile and email; visa, driver-licence and passport data (confirmed by the affected client organisation, not ZircoDATA), Archived Monash Health records from its family-violence and sexual-assault support units, 1970–1993 (confirmed by the affected client organisation, not ZircoDATA), Melbourne Polytechnic: about 60,000 students' low-risk identity attributes
Regulator
OAIC and ACSC (notified); OVIC for Victorian public-sector clients
Trust tier
Reported
Source: Cyber Daily · View record →
Mercury IT
🇳🇿 Wellington · breach 2022-11
● Under investigation
People affected
Not disclosed
Data taken
Ministry of Justice: ~14,500 coronial files on the transport of deceased people (Nov 2018–Nov 2022) and ~4,000 post-mortem reports (Mar 2020–Nov 2022), Te Whatu Ora: ~8,500 Middlemore bereavement records, ~5,500 cardiac/inherited-disease registry records, and records of six health regulatory boards (access blocked; no evidence at the time that they were downloaded)
Regulator
NZ Privacy Commissioner (compliance investigation commenced Dec 2022)
Trust tier
Confirmed
Source: Office of the Privacy Commissioner · View record →
Canva
🇦🇺 Sydney, NSW · breach 2019-05
● Disclosed
People affected
Not disclosed
Data taken
Usernames, names, email addresses and city/country; bcrypt-hashed passwords for a subset of users (~61M reported)
Regulator
None reported
Trust tier
Reported
Source: UpGuard · View record →
PageUp
🇦🇺 Melbourne, VIC · breach 2018-05
● Disclosed
People affected
Not disclosed
Data taken
Job-applicant personal details and reference contact information, and PageUp employee usernames/passwords (hashed and salted); PageUp said tax file numbers and financial/bank details were not affected
Regulator
OAIC and ACSC / CERT Australia (notified)
Trust tier
Reported
Source: Information Age (ACS) · View record →
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