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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Blake Foden

Legal Aid pleads with hackers to protect 'most vulnerable' Canberrans

Legal Aid ACT CEO John Boersig. Picture by Graham Tidy

Legal Aid ACT is pleading with the hackers behind a cyber attack that resulted in confidential client data being compromised, urging them not to release private information about some of Canberra's most vulnerable citizens.

Criminals managed to infiltrate the commission's systems and copy personal information about some of its clients last week, prompting it to engage a specialist cyber security firm.

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