Quigley blasts media over coverage of NBN hacking

Following a myriad of reports over the arrest of a man accused of hacking into the network of an NBN provider, the NBN Co chief, Michael Quigley, has blasted the media

A range of reports have hit the headlines recently relating to the arrest of an unemployed Australian truck driver who was accused of hacking into the networks of one of the providers working with the National Broadband Network. The man was accused of hacking one of the NBN contracted providers, Platform Networks, with a whole variety of security issues now having been raised.

However, the NBN Co chief, Michael Quigley, said that many of these reports were blown out of proportion or false. He said in a recent interview with The World Today: “I want to be very clear if I can with your listeners – the NBN was not hacked, it has not been compromised, it has not been placed at risk and our security hasn’t been breached.”

He added: “I’d like to respond to what is a bunch of provocative headlines that I’ve seen over the last 24 hours. Headlines such as ‘Self-taught hacker charged over NBN attack’ which came from the ABC or ‘NBN hack charges’ from The Daily Telegraph, or ‘More arrests to come over NBN hacking’ which was in The Australian. Or even as I saw this morning, Sky News and the NBN hacking scandal.”

Quigley went on to say: “I understand also that Mr Turnbull said yesterday on your program that this man, the hacker, has effectively been able to map much, if not most of the NBN’s existing infrastructure. That statement is factually incorrect. Our network was not mapped. There’s no evidence at all our security was compromised in any way by this individual. And yes, of course, Mr Turnbull is right that all of us in today’s world need to take security very, very seriously.”

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Source – ABC