{"id":769708,"date":"2026-06-30T10:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769708\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:51:17","slug":"ey-sacks-graduate-employee-after-he-allegedly-accessed-australian-pms-bank-account-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769708\/","title":{"rendered":"EY sacks graduate employee after he allegedly accessed Australian PM\u2019s bank account | Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

An employee at one of Australia\u2019s big four accounting firms has been sacked after he and another man allegedly accessed the prime minister Anthony Albanese\u2019s personal banking account.<\/p>\n

The men, aged 21 and 25, faced court on Tuesday over the breach, which Australian federal police alleged occurred when the EY graduate was on secondment at the Commonwealth Bank.<\/p>\n

Paul Issa, 21, was charged with accessing restricted data without authorisation as well as distributing personal data.<\/p>\n

Phillip Issa, 25, was charged with facilitating unauthorised access to restricted data.<\/p>\n

The two Sydney men were charged on 6 May and granted bail to appear before Downing Centre local court on Tuesday, an AFP spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Both men had their bail continued until their next court appearance on 25 August.<\/p>\n

According to his register of interests, Albanese holds a savings account at Commonwealth Bank as well as a mortgage for a property on the New South Wales Central Coast that he jointly owns with his wife.<\/p>\n

The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, said any breaches of that kind were \u201cincredibly concerning\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot just in relation to the PM\u2019s details but any Australians\u2019 details,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n

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A Commonwealth Bank spokesperson said it was not appropriate to comment on individual contractor matters.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for EY declined to comment, but confirmed the former employee was no longer working at the firm.<\/p>\n

The big professional services firms have come under increased scrutiny of late, after scandal engulfed rivals KPMG and PwC for leaking confidential information about client audits<\/a> and tax policy<\/a>, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An employee at one of Australia\u2019s big four accounting firms has been sacked after he and another man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-769708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}