David Hollingworth reports:
The Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) sent an email to its donors late on Friday afternoon, 30 August, warning them of a “data security incident”.
According to the email, shared with Cyber Daily by an ACRF donor, a malicious actor was able to access the charity’s network via a compromised email account.
“Regrettably, 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 ACRF’s CEO Kerry Strydom – said.
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