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Melbourne IT takes heat for Cold Fusion breach

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Dissent

James Hutchinson reports:

Melbourne IT has admitted to hosting and operating both the Queensland Government and AAPT servers that suffered breaches this week at the hands of hackers purporting to be from a Anonymous splinter group.

The group Ops Australia took credit for defacing nine Queensland Government websites related to tourism, science and economic development and stealing a 40 GB trove of customer data from corporate ISP AAPT.

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