Attributable to Steve Rosich, CEO of Victoria Racing Club:
We are currently communicating with our employees, members, partners and sponsors to inform them that the VRC recently experienced a cyber incident.
As soon as we detected the incident, we took immediate steps to contain the incident and engage leading experts to assist with our response and investigation. This ongoing investigation has identified evidence that an unauthorised third party has accessed our system. We are urgently investigating to determine whether there has been unauthorised access to our data.
We are operating as normal and there has been no disruption to our operations.
We are informing employees, members, partners and sponsors about the incident, to encourage them to practise cyber vigilance and remain alert for scams while our investigation is ongoing. We will communicate directly if our investigation identifies evidence that personal information has been affected in line with our obligations.
We have also reported the incident to the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC).
The protection of all of our stakeholders’ information is our upmost priority and we apologise for any concern that this incident has caused.