Incident: Queensland minister stood down over email scandal | iTnews

Posted by Steven Kirby | Jul 24, 2017 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2017, Compliance, Data Handling, Data Loss, Email, iTnews, Queensland, State Government | 0 |

CCC finds ‘reasonable suspicion of corrupt conduct’.

Queensland energy minister Mark Bailey has been stood aside after the state’s corruption watchdog found he had raised a “reasonable suspicion of corrupt conduct” by destroying work-related emails from a private account.

Source: Qld minister stood down over email scandal – Software – iTnews

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