New Zealand Treasury chief says website attacked 2,000 times

guest · May 28, 2019

New Zealand Treasury chief says website attacked 2,000 times
May 29, 2019
https://in.reuters.com/article/us-n...ays-website-attacked-2000-times-idINKCN1SY2IJ

New Zealand’s Treasury chief said on Wednesday that the Treasury website was attacked 2,000 times in two days by hackers seeking access to budget details, a day after the country’s opposition party leaked details of the economic plan.

“We identified multiple and persistent attempts to gain unauthorized access to our systems, and specifically budget related information,” Treasury Secretary Gabriel Makhlouf told Radio New Zealand.
He did not say where those attacks came from, but said they were deliberate and occurred “not once, not twice but in fact over 2000 times.”
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guest · May 29, 2019

New Zealand budget leak: 'hackers' had simply searched Treasury website
May 30, 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-hackers-had-simply-searched-treasury-website

The alleged “systematic” hack of New Zealand’s budget papers turns out to be nothing more sinister than a bit of internet searching.

In an embarrassing twist for the Labour coalition government, police on Thursday said the documents were sourced legally using the search function on Treasury’s website, and the investigation had been closed.

“The police have advised the Treasury that, on the available information, an unknown person or persons appear to have exploited a feature in the website search tool but that this does not appear to be unlawful,” Treasury said in a statement.
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