Live news: 'Hang up the phone': O'Neil issues chilling scam alert in wake of Crowdstrike outage

Cybersecurity Minister Clare O’Neil warns Australians 'to be really cautious', saying some people have already been the target of unknown contacts pretending to be from CrowdStrike or Microsoft.

Cybersecurity Minister Clare O’Neil Clare O'Neil asked Australians to beware providing personal or sensitive information to unknown contacts claiming to help resolve ongoing effects of the service shutdown. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

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