Incident: Tens of thousands locked out of ATO Online accounts after payroll hack | iTnews
Australian Government Payroll Outage,
17 December 2021
Tens of thousands locked out of ATO Online accounts after payroll hack
Linked to ransomware attack on major payroll software provider Frontier Software last month
Source: Tens of thousands locked out of ATO Online accounts after payroll hack | iTnews
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Tens of thousands of people have been temporarily locked out of their ATO Online accounts after a ransomware attack on major payroll software provider Frontier Software last month.
The Australian Taxation Office has taken the precautionary action while it investigates the full extent of the incident, which has seen data from some Frontier Software customers stolen.
“The safeguards we have in place do not affect taxpayers’ ability to access their overarching myGov account – they can still use myGov to access other agencies’ services as normal,” the spokesperson said.
