Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party has informed its members of a data breach, but admits “it is impracticable to notify individuals”.
David Hollingworth reports:
A pair of Australian political parties associated with firebrand mining magnate Clive Palmer have confirmed they were the victims of a ransomware attack last month.
According to a data breach notice on the United Australia Party (UAP) website, both it and Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots party fell victim to a cyber attack on 23 June.
“On 23 June 2025, we identified unauthorised access to our servers resulting in access to, and the possible exfiltration of, certain data records. We were the subject of a ransomware cyber attack,” the breach notification said.
“The data records potentially include all emails to and from the political parties (including their attachments) and documents and records created and or held electronically by the political parties at any time in the past.”
It appears that not only can the UAP not confirm what data was compromised, but they will not be notifying any members or site visitors about the breach:
“We do not keep a record of all individuals who were on the server,” the party said.
“We have determined it is impracticable to notify individuals.”
Read more at CyberDaily.au