The ATO website has been subject to ongoing DDOS attacks since July 1, a senior government IT security spokesperson who wishes to remain nameless has revealed.
“We’ve seen it take a real hit,” he said.
“It’s been enormous, I’m talking in the order of from millions of different IP addresses at a time.”
Meanwhile Craig McGarry of Brisbane is just one of the many of Australians who have been locked out from accessing the government tax reporting website.
“Yeah mate, been trying to log into the bloody thing for the past couple of days,” he said.
“Have just been trying and trying ’round the clock, really want to lodge me return so I can get some money back in time for them relaxing all those ‘rona restrictions and letting us back into the pubs, and I reckon everyone else around the country would be doing the same.”
When asked about the source of such attacks which have left millions of Australians in the dire situation of having to repeatedly try to access the site to report their tax details after the new financial year began this week, the government security bigwig simply said ‘investigations are continuing’, but conceded it’d probably just be easier to blame it on China.
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