Ransomware outed as cause of State Transit Authority outage
By Justin Hendry on Dec 15, 2020 7:08AM Audit confirms June cyber incident took place. A ransomware attack was behind a three-day systems outage at NSW’s State Transit Authority earlier this year, the state’s auditor-general has confirmed. In June, the Sun-Herald reported that Transport for NSW was investigating an outage that insiders had described as a “malicious hack”. It saw the bus operator revert to paper-based processes, including for the scheduling of buses, across all eight bus depots. At the time, outgoing transport secretary Rodd S...
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