The intellectual property services provider detected an unauthorised
access to its document management system, which included
administrative and some client documents as well as correspondence
at its head office and two member firms.
The investigation further suggested there was no evidence that data
stored in any other component of its IT network was accessed by any
unauthorised third-party during the course of the incident, the
company said.
"Based on this analysis, IPH has determined to notify a small number
of individuals whose personal information was in the dataset."
The Sydney-based firm estimated A$2 million ($1.34 million) to A$2.5
million (pre-tax) to be incurred as non-underlying costs in its
full-year 2023 accounts related to the incident.
IPH joins a long list of Australian firms reporting cybersecurity
breaches over the past few months, which experts have attributed to
an understaffed cybersecurity industry in the country.
($1 = 1.4923 Australian dollars)
(Reporting by Jaskiran Singh in Bengaluru; editing by Uttaresh
Venkateshwaran)
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