Australia Now a Cyberattack Hotbed With Defence Department the Latest Target
The Australian Defence Force has become the latest target in a spate of ongoing cyberattacks against major organisations in the country, with the Defence Department’s internal communication platform, Forcenet, targeted in the ransomware attack.
The platform is used for communication between serving defence members, Australian public service personnel and their families and contains data from 2018.
A spokesperson from the department of defence told The Epoch Times in an email that the hack affected a 2018 ForceNet dataset containing personal information of current and former Australian Defence Force Members and Australian Public Servants may have been part of a ransomware attack on an external ICT service provider….