Federal authorities have been brought in to investigate a cyber security breach of ACT government IT systems.
The security breach was detected in an email gateway system called Barracuda, which supports some IT systems for the territory government.
ACT Special Minister of State Chris Steel said investigations were underway to determine what data may have been accessed during the breach.
“The investigation has now identified that a breach has occurred, and a harms assessment is underway to fully understand the impact specific to our systems,” he said in a statement on Thursday.
“We are confident that actions taken to date have contained the breach and that there is no ongoing threat.”…