Australia: Massive cyber outage hits major companies

Australia: Massive cyber outage

including the national broadcaster ABC, have been affected by a disruption to cyber services. Authorities say the outage is likely not due to a hacking attack, according to DW.

Australia were hit on Friday by what the country’s cyber-security authority said was a “large-scale technical outage.”

“Our current information is this outage relates to a technical issue with a third-party software platform employed by affected companies,” the office of Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator Michelle McGuinness said in a statement.

“There is no information to suggest it is a cyber security incident. We continue to engage across key stakeholders,” the statement on X, formerly Twitter, said

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