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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Henry Belot

‘Scam-in-a-box’: MyGov suspends thousands of accounts linked to dark web fraud kits

Australian government services minister Bill Shorten
Government services minister Bill Shorten says Australians had already lost $3.1bn to scams this year, including attacks on MyGov. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Thousands of MyGov accounts are being suspended each month out of concern they’ve been breached via “scam-in-a-box” kits being sold by criminals on the dark web.

The products were being used to create fake websites and provide the specialist knowledge required to launch phishing attacks on Centrelink, Australian Tax Office and Medicare accounts.

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