Tasmania's technology minister says no government-held data was compromised as part of a hack of a third-party file transfer site by a cybercrime enterprise, but added the investigations were ongoing.
gang C10p claiming it had exploited a vulnerability in the third-party file transfer site GoAnywhere MFT.among those affected by the hack and that personal information "may have been compromised"Tasmania's Science and Technology Minister Madeleine Ogilvie told reporters today that investigations had so far shown no data had been compromised but added the matter was "ongoing".
"This is a process that will continue, and I will continue to communicate with the Tasmanian public as I am able to with as much email as I am able to share." Ms Ogilvie refused to say what information was transferred by or stored on GoAnywhere, but said it "transfers information, it is not a storage system".
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