❓ A WA parliamentary question on notice regarding cybersecurity incidents within the Minister for Local Government's portfolio. It reveals some virus incidents affecting the Perth Theatre Trust and a malware detection, but no illegal file access.
AnsweredQoN 558Legislative Assembly
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In respect of the Minister’s portfolio responsibilities for departments, agencies or publicly owned corporations: (a) how much money was spent on anti-virus, network security, firewall or anti-malware software in the last financial year; (b) from 17 March 2017 to 19 May 2017, have there been any reported instances of: (i) Viruses: (A) if so, what systems were affected, for how long and was there any downtime (in hours) for each system; (ii) Malware: (A) if so, what systems were affected, for how long and was there any downtime (in hours) for each system; (iii) Cyber-attack: (A) if so, what systems were affected, for how long and was there any downtime (in hours) for each system; and (B) was this attack reported to the WA or Australian Federal Police? If not, why not; (iv) DNS attack: (A) if so, what systems or websites were affected, for how long and was there any downtime (in hours) for each system; and (B) was this attack reported to the WA or Australian Federal Police? If not, why not; (v) Infected websites: (A) if so, what websites were infected / hacked, for how long and was there any downtime (in hours) for each system; (c) From 17 March 2017 to 19 May 2017 have any network files been illegally accessed by external individuals or organisations: (i) if so, what files were illegally accessed and when; (ii) if so, were the WA Police or Australian Federal Police informed of this illegal access; and (iii) if not, why not?
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Answered
28 June 2017
Responded by
Minister for Local Government; Heritage; Culture and the Arts
Response time
8 days
(a) Please refer to clause a) of Legislative Assembly Question on Notice 549.
(b)(i-v) Yes. Two incidents of a virus affecting some Perth Theatre Trust network share files and applications; first incident, access progressively restored in nine working days; second incident, access progressively restored in seven working days. One incident of malware detection; no system affected, no downtime. No incidents were reported to WA or Federal Police as the types of incidents did not warrant reporting.
(c) No.
(b)(i-v) Yes. Two incidents of a virus affecting some Perth Theatre Trust network share files and applications; first incident, access progressively restored in nine working days; second incident, access progressively restored in seven working days. One incident of malware detection; no system affected, no downtime. No incidents were reported to WA or Federal Police as the types of incidents did not warrant reporting.
(c) No.
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