280,000 Australians at Risk After Cyber Hack Breaches iiNet

Around 10,000 usernames, street addresses and 1,700 modem passwords were also accessed, though no banking or ID documents were compromised.

An image of internet provider iiNet's home page including a notice of a cyber attack incident, taken in Brisbane, Australia on Aug. 19, 2025. Daniel Y. Teng/The Epoch Times

Major internet provider iiNet has confirmed that an unknown third party gained unauthorised access to its order management system, exposing hundreds of thousands of Australian customer records.

The company’s parent, TPG Telecom, said the incident was contained to iiNet’s internal ordering platform, but acknowledged the scale of the breach has left many customers at risk.