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Update (Apr 19th 2009) - (Presumably) the hacker posted a comment to this story with some details. He says that the number of records leaking was much higher: 17,000 Aussies and 7,000 Kiwis. The rest we did not understand and hope that either he or any of you can clarify.

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Leakage of information from an energy company is usually associated with gas stations fraud such as installing a stealth credit card reader at the pump. However, a report suggests that an incident in which information about 4500 Australian and 1400 Kiwis leaked was a result of a glitch in a web based application for applying for a Shell fuel card. The information obtained included company names, address details, email addresses and some bank account details.
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