Census failure blamed on denial of service attack, but experts scoff

By Ben Langford
Updated August 10 2016 - 5:50pm, first published 5:30pm

The debacle which derailed the 2016 Census did not appear to be a standard hacker’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and was more likely a failure or oversight within the Australian Bureau of Statistics, a Wollongong expert has said.

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