As Australia reels from another “immensely harmful” data hack, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed it has fended off close to a billion cyber-attacks against the census.
Australian statistician Dr David Gruen told the Melbourne Business Analytics Conference last week that after the 2016 distributed denial-of-service attacks which led to the first digital census being taken offline by the ABS for 40 hours, every effort was made to protect the census and its data.
