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Michael McCormack’s website ‘hacked’ and offline - hours after he defended #CensusFail
HE has defended the Government’s #CensusFail — now it appears Small Business Minister Michael McCormack has had his own website dramas.
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August 10, 2016 - 7:24PM
Minister for Small Business Michael McCormack has had his own site ‘hacked’.
Minister for Small Business Michael McCormack has had his own site ‘hacked’.
HE has spent all day defending the Government’s disastrous census — now it appears Michael McCormack has had his own website fail.
The Small Business Minister’s own site www.michaelmccormack.com.au appeared to have been hacked late on Wednesday afternoon with a link labelled “gay sex” appearing on the official site, reported the ABC.
It hyperlinked to what looked like a Polish finance company’s website.
After the Minister was informed about the irregularity, the whole site disappeared with a message saying it was “down for maintenance”.
A spokesman for Mr McCormack would not elaborate when contacted by news.com.au tonight.
Earlier in the day the Minister insisted the problems that plagued the census — when the Australian Bureau of Statistics site crashed — on Tuesday night “was not an attack, nor was it a hack”.
Michael McCormack’s website on Wednesday night.
Michael McCormack’s website on Wednesday night.
“It was an attempt to frustrate the collection of data. People should feel rest assured their data is safe.”
However, that directly contradicted tweets and a press release issued by the ABS which stated there were four “attacks”.
Mr McCormack said it wasn’t an attack because the site was not breached.
“I’m not using the word attack, nor was it hacked,” he said.
“I feel by saying attacked, it looks as though, and it seems as though … information was then gained. There was no successful attack.”
He said the ABS, in conjunction with IBM, closed the system down as a precaution so no information could be accessed.
“A hack is when somebody gets into a system, and then uses it for malicious purposes. There was no attack, there was no hack, because that sort of information did not get out.”
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