Queensland Maritime Museum fights for survival after cyber attacks

The first police probe centres on $100,000 being skimmed from a QMM bank account in July 2019 by someone not involved with the museum and believed to be based interstate.

A New South Wales Police Force spokeswoman said detectives from Fairfield, in Sydney’s west, are looking for a 39-year-old man who used to live in the Sydney suburb of Mount Pritchard, hoping to question him in relation to the QMM fraud allegations.

A separate inquiry is being looked into by Brisbane detectives based in West End and involves a potential data breach from within the museum. It is believed to be a relatively recent incident.

The allegation is someone potentially took email addresses from the QMM database when they were not authorised to do so.

The Queensland…