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NSW Health, Rio Tinto, Serco named as victims of massive global SolarWinds hack attack
NSW Health has been named in a growing list of victims of a major global cyber attack by Russian hackers — although it says patient information was not stolen.
Key points:
- Australian organisations were named in a list of potential victims of a global attack by Russian hackers
- Dubbed the ‘SolarWinds’ attack, it has infected thousands of systems worldwide with malware
- NSW Health may have been infected since June
But while the health agency says its system was not “compromised”, cybersecurity experts said it appeared to be infected with malware.
In a worst-case scenario, this could have allowed the hackers to escalate the attack and steal information.
Analysis of intercepted internet traffic between NSW Health systems and a server used by the…
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