Thread: Australia's online census Hacked

This should be a cause for some embarrassment in the coming month..
Initially the ABS was insistent that the massive fault at the heart of the 2016 Census wasn’t at their end.

The trouble began about 6pm, as Australians returned from work and logged on. Finding they couldn’t many turned to Twitter for answers.

First the ABS replied the website was working just as expected. Then they shifted the fault back onto the public, suggesting the issue was probably people using out-of-date browsers or maybe we were all typing in the wrong web address. Silly Australians!

However by 10pm, even the ABS had to admit Census 2016 had become #censusfail when they shut down the entire site.

This morning, the organisation blamed a series of attacks by hackers that had caused Australia to go into a collective meltdown.

Almost Thai in the frantic refusal to admit their own fault.

^
Is that a result of increasing immigration from Asia? The influx "saving face" bollocks?!

^ No, it's the manifestation of a gutless, dishonest government.

I hadn't realized that payroll system was by IBM.

Boy, was that ever an ongoing fuckup ! It just kept giving...

A monumental fuck up, and all because Big Blue was too tight to spend some money on DDOS protection.