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SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE DATA TAKEN IN FRONTIER SOFTWARE RANSOMWARE
ATTACK
At least 38,000 and up to 80,000 SA government employees may have had their data
accessed, the South Australian Treasurer has said.
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South Australia Treasurer Rob Lucas said on Friday that state government
employee data has been exfiltrated as part of a ransomware attack on payroll
provider Frontier Software.
Lucas said the company has informed government that some of the data have been
published online, with at least 38,000 employees and up to 80,000 government
employees possibly having their data accessed.
The data contained information on names, date of birth, tax file number, home
address, bank account details, employment start date, payroll period,
remuneration, and other payroll-related information.
"We can confirm that no Department for Education employees are affected," Lucas
said in a statement.
"The government's priority is the safety and security of every employee affected
by this incident, and we are doing all we can to provide assistance to impacted
employees."
Frontier Software has been handling payroll for South Australia since 2001.
On its site, the government states it "undertakes regular independent security
tests and reviews" of Frontier Software.
Last month, Frontier Software was attacked on November 13 and alerted its
customers to what it labelled as a "cyber incident" on November 16. It said its
systems were restored on November 17.
"To date, our investigations show no evidence of any customer data being
exfiltrated or stolen. Whilst the incident resulted in some of Frontier
Software's Australian corporate systems being encrypted, Australian customer HR
& Payroll data and systems are segmented from the corporate systems and were not
compromised," it said on November 17.
On Thursday, the company sang a different tune.
"The ongoing forensic investigation and other response activities conducted by
Frontier Software and CyberCX has now confirmed evidence of some data
exfiltration from Frontier Software's internal Australian corporate
environment," it said.
"We have not identified evidence of compromise or exfiltration outside this
segmented environment.
"We have further identified that some of the data exfiltrated from our internal
corporate environment relates to a small number of Frontier Software customers.
We are now in the process of directly notifying these customers that they may be
affected."
During November, the ABC reported Federal Group, the owners of Hobart's Wrest
Point casino, had to make advance payments of AU$250 to staff due to the attack
on Frontier Software.
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