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outside png's national tax office signs
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like these say servers are offline what
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the notice doesn't say is that the
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internal revenue commission has been hit
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with a massive Cyber attack come out and
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explain to the people of what
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happened how much money has been lost
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how much data has been lost the hack has
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impacted the irc's core tax system phone
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and email Services more than 2 weeks on
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the systems are still offline all the
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big companies small companies
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smmes the even Australian companies that
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are based here all day data has been
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exposed businesses are very concerned
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because uh obviously their tax data is
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confidential only disclosed to the tax
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office themselves and uh we're very
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concerned if that data then gets leaked
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through a ransomware attack and the lack
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of services is starting to affect
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business operations we cannot get
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documents stamped and that means means
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uh conveyances can't be settled business
1:03
sales can't be completed and so on so
1:06
it's having starting to have a bit of an
1:07
impact IRC commissioner General Sam
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Cohen has not responded to the ABC's
1:12
request for comment and it's unclear
1:15
exactly who is behind the attack but
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it's not the first time the PNG
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government has been hacked in 2021 its
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finance department fell victim to a
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serious ransomware attack the Cyber
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Security Experts need to do what they
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have to do to uh try to restore data the
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ABC understands the Australian
1:34
government has offered to help with a
1:36
rapid response team Poise to assist with
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cyber emergencies but that offer hasn't
1:41
been taken up at this stage and it's
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understood the IRC has engaged a private
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company to deal with the response Maran
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far ABC News port mby
