Blog, Enterprise IT - Thursday, December 29, 2011 13:34 - 3 Comments

Turnbull’s credit card details exposed in Stratfor hack

blog By now many of you know that a number of Australian organisations have had their credit card numbers compromised (this iTNews report is rather good) by a major hack of the US security intelligence firm Stratfor, with Australian victims including ANZ Bank, BHP, HSBC, Westpac, Woodside and so on. But did you know that Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s security has also been compromised? Probably the best article on the issue so far has come from Fran Foo of The Australian, who reports:

“The details of Mr Turnbull, the opposition communications spokesman … were laid bare for all and sundry. Mr Turnbull was holidaying overseas and could not be contacted but his spokesman confirmed those were his private details.”

Similar articles have been published by ZDNet.com.au, CIO Magazine and many others. Overall, there’s not really much to say about this … apart from to note that if a security intelligence firm can be hacked in this manner, then probably any organisation can. In the new Internet era, your information is never 100 percent safe — even if you’re Malcolm Turnbull ;)

Image credit: Office of Malcolm Turnbull