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Enterprise IT, News - Thursday, June 20, 2013 12:12 - 2 Comments
Hacked? NSW Education in major outage
news The NSW Department of Education and Communities has confirmed it has suffered a major event in its IT operation this week that knocked key staff services such as email offline, with an an unverified source claiming it had been hacked and suffered the deletion of thousands of accounts.
The department is one of the largest employers in NSW, with about 100,000 staff listed in its 2012 annual report, including some 61,000 school teachers and a further 10,000 more working in TAFE colleges across the state. It daily serves the needs of around 750,000 school students and several hundred thousand more TAFE students. Because of this, the department is also one of the largest buyers and users of technology goods and services nationally.
On Tuesday night, Delimiter received an anonymous tip stating that DEC had been “hacked”, with approximately 139,000 accounts deleted”. The tipster stated that this meant that the department was unable to conduct staff authentication of accounts into its systems, meaning teachers would be locked out of teaching resources and central departmental staff out of management resources. Continue…
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