Online census foiled foreign hackers, sure the Australian authorities.
Hackers attacked the website, which were Australia’s first online census.
It is reported by the Australian Bureau of statistics.
Due to a series of cyber attacks resource, which contains sensitive personal data of citizens, has gone offline. “It was an attack, and we believe that from abroad,” — said in a local television chief statistician Bureau David Kalish. Management of radio engineering defense of Australia is investigating the incident, but the source of the attack to determine “very difficult,” he added. Personal data of the residents, he said, are safe, no one but the Bureau has not received access to them. Before leaving the site in offline your data to it managed to load about 2 million people, said Kalisz.
Some politicians boycotted the census. This is due to the fact that the government has decided to store information about citizens for four years, not 18 months as it was before. Senator Nick Xenophon, who opposed the census and urged to hold a parliamentary investigation in connection with hacker attacks. The opposition labour party called for the resignation of Minister Michael McCormack, in whose area of responsibility includes the activities of the Bureau of statistics. Sam McCormack said the attacks were probably not hacking, but an attempt to disrupt data collection.
