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$500,000 stolen in Australian super fund data breach

In Data Breach News
April 04, 2025

The Guardian reports:

Hackers have targeted Australian superannuation funds this week, with a small number of customers losing a combined half a million dollars, and compromising some members’ data, the industry’s peak body says.

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said in a statement on Friday that hackers attempted to breach the cyber defences of a number of superannuation funds last weekend. While the majority of attempts were stopped, several companies were affected, it said.

ASFA said the funds were contacting all affected members to let them know if their data had been compromised.

Read more at The Guardian.