Queensland Cybersecurity Department Loses $809,000 in Cyberattack

The Queensland Customer Services, Open Data and Small and Family Business (CDSB) department disclosed a cyberattack in which a third‑party messaging service was misused to generate unauthorized SMS messages for financial gain, causing a reported loss of AUD 809,000; no government data or sensitive records were compromised, the incident was contained and mitigations were applied, and a recent audit found CDSB needs to strengthen third‑party cybersecurity oversight.