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Incident: Australian military IT technician breached two classified networks while deployed in Middle East | The Age

Incident: Australian military IT technician breached two classified networks while deployed in Middle East | The Age

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: September 8 2017

An Australian military staffer breached two classified computer networks while he was deployed in the Middle East, prying into email and other private information.

The senior IT technician misused his access privileges to get into the email accounts of 10 members of his unit, as well as a personal drive.

He also accessed the deployed Defence secret network and the Defence restricted network several times without authority.

Source: Australian military IT technician breached two classified networks while deployed in Middle East

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