The superannuation account details of thousands of Australian retirees are up for sale online, according to cybersecurity researchers who say the data was taken by covertly installed software known as “infostealers”.
The theft of the data is separate from the co-ordinated hack on superannuation funds last week that resulted in the removal of hundreds of thousands of dollars from members’ accounts, and from the phishing attack that targeted executives at the sector’s peak organisations late last month.
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