Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party says it has suffered a ransomware attack that could include all of the emails and documents held by the party.
On Thursday afternoon, the party sent an email to its mailing list saying that it suffered a data breach on June 23 this year.
“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.
The party’s email says that the records accessed could include “all emails to and from the United Australia Party (including their attachments) and documents and records created and or held electronically by the United Australia Party at any time in the past”.
It says this may include all information provided to the party, such as email addresses, phone numbers, banking records and other confidential documents.
The party says 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.
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