Urgent fraud warning for more than 300,000 Aussies after their details leak onto the dark web as retailer digiDirect is allegedly hacked in huge data breach
Hackers have reportedly stolen the personal details of hundreds of thousands of Australian shoppers in the country’s latest data breach.
digiDirect was reportedly attacked by hackers who put the private data of 304,000 people on the dark web in late September.
A hacker named ‘Tanaka’ allegedly posted the information on a forum used by other criminals. reports Het Register.
They claimed to have stolen a database containing customers’ full names, email addresses, phone numbers, billing and shipping addresses, and company names.
These claims have yet to be verified, but Tanaka posted a sample of the stolen data along with a special “thank you to Chucky.”
This is the latest in a series of major hacks that have led to the personal information of millions of Australians in 2024.
In September, the data of 40,000 Total Tools customers was leaked and in July, 12.9 million MediSecure users suffered the same fate.
The MediSecure breach was the largest in the country’s history
An alleged data breach has affected the personal data of 304,000 digiDirect customers
A hacker named Tanaka posted a sample of the stolen information on the dark web in late September, but the attack has yet to be confirmed.
digiDirect and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and the Australian Federal Police have done so Daily Mail Australia has been contacted for comment on the latest alleged hack.