Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party and Trumpets of Patriots have suffered a ransomware attack that could include all of the emails and documents held by the party.
An email was sent by United Australia Party to its mailing list on Thursday afternoon saying it suffered a data breach last month.
“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 cyberattack,” it says.
A near identical statement was posted on the Trumpet of Patriots website, too.
The messages say that the records accessed could include “all emails to and from the [party] (including their attachments) and documents and records created and or held electronically by the [party] at any time in the past”.
Both say this may include all information provided to the party, such as email addresses, phone numbers, banking records and other confidential documents.
The messages also say it does “not know comprehensively what information of yours was on the server” and that it will not notify all the individuals because it is “impractical”.
It also says it has reported the breach to the Office of the Information Commissioner and the Australian Signals Directorate.
When contacted by Crikeya spokesperson for Palmer sent a text saying: “This is the first I have heard anything about this.”
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