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Recordings of some court hearings between Nov. 1 and Dec. 21,
2023 may have been stolen, Court Services Victoria CEO Louise
Anderson said in a statement. Some hearings before Nov. 1 may
also have been affected, she said.
"The potential access is confined to recordings stored on the
network. No other court systems or records, including employee
or financial data, were accessed," Anderson said.
Hearings in January would proceed after the affected network was
isolated and disabled, and court officials were working closely
with the government's cyber security experts. Court Services
Victoria did not reveal whether it received any ransomware
demands.
State-sponsored cyber groups and hackers have stepped up their
assault on Australia's critical infrastructure, businesses and
homes, a government report released in November 2023 showed,
with one attack happening every six minutes.
The cyber intrusion at the court database comes after a hack
late last year at DP World Australia, one of the country's
largest ports operators, that forced it to suspend operations
for three days. Last week, car dealership group Eagers
Automotive said a cyber incident hit its IT systems.
(Reporting by Renju Jose in Sydney; Editing by Stephen Coates)
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