Australia’s parliamentary IT system hacked earlier this year

SYDNEY (Reuters) – The computer network of Australia’s parliament was hacked earlier this year and data was stolen from the computers of several elected officials, the Australian Broadcasting Corp reported. “A small number of users visited a legitimate external website that had been compromised,” the broadcaster quoted Ryan as telling the parliamentary committee on Thursday. “This caused malware to be injected into the parliamentary computer network.”The parliament’s cybersecurity team stopped another attempted attack in late October, sending an email to users saying that malware had been detected in the system, the ABC reported. People on the parliamentary computer network were temporarily banned from accessing personal email accounts like Gmail, the broadcaster reported without citing sources. In September, Reuters reported Australian intelligence officials had determined China was responsible for a cyber-attack on its national parliament and its three largest political parties before a general election in May.

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