8 Sep 2021

Internet outage likely a planned cyber attack

From Midday Report, 12:11 pm on 8 September 2021

New Zealand Post and the MetService are among at least five organisations that a computer security expert says are almost certainly the target of another coordinated cyber attack.

ANZ Bank and Kiwi Bank customers have reported being unable to log into ther accounts, while New Zealand Post and Inland Revenue say the outage is being investigated.

IT security expert Daniel Ayers spoke to Māni Dunlop.