📅 Year in breaches

2022

2023 →

The register holds 12 data breaches that happened in 2022 — up from 5 in 2021.

12records

23M+people affected
where disclosed (8 of 12)

2 · 10🇳🇿 NZ · 🇦🇺 AU

6confirmed by a regulator or court

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The biggest

Largest by people affected, where a figure has been disclosed.

🇦🇺 Medibank 9,700,000 (approx) 🇦🇺 Optus 9,500,000 (approx) 🇦🇺 Woolworths MyDeal 2,200,000 (approx) 🇦🇺 Vinomofo 928,760 (approx) 🇦🇺 Australian Clinical Labs — Medlab Pathology 223,000+

Sectors

🏥 Healthcare led the year with 3 records.

🏥 Healthcare3 📡 Telco2 🛍️ Retail2 🎓 Education2 🛡️ Insurance1 🗂️ Other1 🖥️ Technology1

Month by month

When the breaches happened (1 dated to the year only).

Penalties

AUD 5.8MAustralian Clinical Labs — Medlab Pathology

Supply chain

Suppliers named in this year's records.

CTARS 1 Stafflink 1 Mercury IT 1

Every 2022 record

🇦🇺 Queensland University of TechnologyEducation · 2022-12 · Tier B 🇳🇿 Mercury ITTechnology · 2022-11 · Tier A 🇦🇺 Harcourts Melbourne CityOther · 2022-10 · Tier B 🇦🇺 Woolworths MyDealRetail · 2022-10 · Tier B 🇳🇿 Pinnacle Midlands Health NetworkHealthcare · 2022-09-28 · Tier B 🇦🇺 VinomofoRetail · 2022-09-25 · Tier A 🇦🇺 OptusTelco · 2022-09 · Tier A 🇦🇺 MedibankInsurance · 2022-08 · Tier A 🇦🇺 Deakin UniversityEducation · 2022-07 · Tier B 🇦🇺 CTARS (NDIS client-management provider)Healthcare · 2022-05-15 · Tier B 🇦🇺 Australian Clinical Labs — Medlab PathologyHealthcare · 2022-02 · Tier A 🇦🇺 Telstra (unlisted-number disclosure)Telco · 2022 · Tier A

Counts reflect the records in this register, not every breach that happened — most breaches are never made public. People-affected totals add disclosed figures only and may overlap.