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ppShare this article onppThe Australian Cancer Research Foundation ACRF sent an email to its donors late on Friday afternoon 30 August warning them of a data security incidentppAccording to the email shared with Cyber Daily by an ACRF donor a malicious actor was able to access the charitys network via a compromised email accountppRegrettably ACRF received a fraudulent email from someone known to us who had themselves also been the victim of unauthorised activity This allowed the unauthorised third party to gain temporary access to our network including access to the email inboxes of a few of our employees the email attributed to ACRFs CEO Kerry Strydom saidppThis issue has since been rectified However given the possibility that personal information about you was contained within those email inboxes and may have been accessed in an unauthorised manner we are sending you this noticeppThe personal information that may have been compromised includes contact details and donor IDs payment histories and details of donations including BPay IDs and any other personal information shared with the charity via email such as personal experiences or stories andor health information either about you or your loved ones that you have shared with usppIts also possible that bank and credit card details were compromisedppIf you provided credit card or bank account details to us in writing prior to 2023 ie by filling out a form or sending us an email that information could be affected the ACRF saidppBased on our investigations any credit card and bank account details used to make donations via our payment gatewaydonor portal were not compromised as part of this incidentppThe ACRF said it has engaged cyber security professionals to assist in its response The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner the NSW Police and the Australian Cyber Security Centre have also been informedppSo far as far as the ACRF is aware the impacted data does not appear to have been published online and it is monitoring both the deep and dark web in case the data is sharedppThe ACRF was founded in 1984 and since then has awarded over 80 research grants worth more than 184 million to 44 Australian research institutionsppDavid Hollingworth has been writing about technology for over 20 years and has worked for a range of print and online titles in his career He is enjoying getting to grips with cyber security especially when it lets him talk about Legopp
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ppShare this article onppThe Australian Cancer Research Foundation ACRF sent an email to its donors late on Friday afternoon 30 August warning them of a data security incidentppAccording to the email shared with Cyber Daily by an ACRF donor a malicious actor was able to access the charitys network via a compromised email accountppRegrettably ACRF received a fraudulent email from someone known to us who had themselves also been the victim of unauthorised activity This allowed the unauthorised third party to gain temporary access to our network including access to the email inboxes of a few of our employees the email attributed to ACRFs CEO Kerry Strydom saidppThis issue has since been rectified However given the possibility that personal information about you was contained within those email inboxes and may have been accessed in an unauthorised manner we are sending you this noticeppThe personal information that may have been compromised includes contact details and donor IDs payment histories and details of donations including BPay IDs and any other personal information shared with the charity via email such as personal experiences or stories andor health information either about you or your loved ones that you have shared with usppIts also possible that bank and credit card details were compromisedppIf you provided credit card or bank account details to us in writing prior to 2023 ie by filling out a form or sending us an email that information could be affected the ACRF saidppBased on our investigations any credit card and bank account details used to make donations via our payment gatewaydonor portal were not compromised as part of this incidentppThe ACRF said it has engaged cyber security professionals to assist in its response The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner the NSW Police and the Australian Cyber Security Centre have also been informedppSo far as far as the ACRF is aware the impacted data does not appear to have been published online and it is monitoring both the deep and dark web in case the data is sharedppThe ACRF was founded in 1984 and since then has awarded over 80 research grants worth more than 184 million to 44 Australian research institutionsppDavid Hollingworth has been writing about technology for over 20 years and has worked for a range of print and online titles in his career He is enjoying getting to grips with cyber security especially when it lets him talk about Legopp
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