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BoM was hacked by a ‘foreign power’: report

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Dissent

Claire Reilly reports:

It’s official. Foreign spies compromised Australia’s government networks last year, and they got at us through our weather division.

The Australian Cyber Security Centre has confirmed that a 2015 attack on servers at Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology was conducted by a “foreign intelligence service.” The attack saw two computers on the BOM’s network infected with remote access malware, allowing the attacker to search for, and copy, an “unknown quantity of documents.

Read more on CNET.

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