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Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

'Dumb, rich and insured': hackers target Aussie firms

A conference has been told that hackers are becoming more audacious in attacks on Australian firms. (Rounak Amini/AAP PHOTOS)

On the day hackers broke into his business, Lance Rubin considered himself lucky.

Email demands to the busy financial firm had ground to a halt, letting him catch up on work, he told attendees at the On the Defense Live event in Brisbane on Thursday.

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