Cybercriminals publish personal details of thousands of donors to Australian charities on the dark web
Cybercriminals publish personal details of thousands of donors to Australian charities on the dark web
The Cancer Council, Canteen and Fred Hollows Foundation have confirmed donor information has been published on the dark web after a telemarketer was hacked.
Maybe charities shouldn't be giving out our details to tele-marketers.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Charities sell your data to telemarketers, unless they take loose money you should avoid at all costs.
I'm not a bot.
The aggressive sales tactics of the charity representatives at those little pop-ups at the supermarket and plazas are a bit shady as well, IMO. I usually manage to avoid them but the few times I have been stopped, it's never a pleasant/easy experience to get away. They are trained to sell this way, and I understand they need the donations, but it never leaves me with a feeling of respect for the charity they represent.
I cant afford to make monthly donations but sometimes I would like the option to drop a cash donation in a tin, or to make a one-off merch purchase. Unfortunately neither of these things are ever an option these days, so instead we get the hard sell and are left with a bad taste in the mouth.
The aggressive sales tactics of the charity representatives at those little pop-ups at the supermarket and plazas are a bit shady as well, IMO. I usually manage to avoid them but the few times I have been stopped, it’s never a pleasant/easy experience to get away. They are trained to sell this way, and I understand they need the donations, but it never leaves me with a feeling of respect for the charity they represent.
Those people likely aren't direct representatives of a charity. The aggressive (desperate) ones are generally salespeople hired by third parties with KPIs and quotas they need to meet in order to get paid anything other than the bare minimum. Many are underpaid and exploited by their employers and only take the job out of desperation. This industry has been investigated by Fair Work previously and is the subject of an ongoing inquiry.
100%, $70 a month to restore sight? Homie I'm struggling to afford to eat and pay rent.
In fact if I was even $10,000 better off a year in my job id absolutely be dishing it out to those who need it. But hell no you can't have my data.
Read the article again maybe? Not what is happening here. Maybe a bot would would have been more accurate?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Cancer Council, Canteen and Fred Hollows Foundation have confirmed donor information has been published on the dark web.
"Under the Australian Privacy Principles, there is a requirement for personal information data to be destroyed or de-identified once it is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was collected.
"We're deeply upset that our supporters have been impacted by a data breach at Pareto Phone … we understand that this will cause major concern for kind-hearted people who donate."
"We understand that this may be a concerning situation for anyone who has generously donated to Cancer Council, and we unreservedly apologise for any distress caused," a statement read.
"We have not at this stage identified any identity documents such as tax file numbers, driver licenses and passports about any donor," Mr Smedley said.
There is a risk more data could be published, since there had been four months between the attack and the leak, Paul Haskell-Dowland, a professor of Cybersecurity Practice at Edith Cowan University, said.
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