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… Source link

The vulnerability used by Anonymous hackers to breach and obtain data from AAPT and Queensland Government websites was “very old”, sources have told iTnews‘ sister site SC Magazine. AAPT yesterday confirmed a 12-month-old backup of its business website had been compromised with hackers retrieving two “historic” data files with “limited personal customer information” compromised. The… Source link