The Australian Department of Defence are the latest to be embroiled in a cyber breach after a military communication platform was hit with a ransomware attack.
The communication platform ‘ForceNet’ is run by a third party communications technology provider and contains the personal information of personnel including dates of birth.
Initially the company claimed that the personal information of both past and present personnel had not been exposed but a source close to the investigation revealed that data including dates of birth and enlistment dates had been compromised.
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