Toyota Australia rocked by cyber attack
Australian operation enters third day without email accessToyota Australia has confirmed it has been targeted in a cyber attack which has seen staff locked out of their emails for a third consecutive day.
Australia’s biggest importer says its servers were targeted on Tuesday by a potentially malicious cyber attack. The car-maker is working with international cyber security experts to get its operating systems back on track.
"At this stage, we believe no private employee or customer data has been accessed," Toyota said in a statement.
“At this stage we have no further details about the origin of the attack.”
According to reports, all employees at the company are without email access. Staff have instead been instructed to use face-to-face communications, phone and text until emails are recovered.
The attack coincides with revelations from The Age of a cyber crime syndicate that hacked and held to ransom medical files of about 15,000 patients from a specialist cardiology unit at Malvern's Cabrini Hospital in Melbourne.
Australia’s political parties have also suffered cyber attacks alongside the Parliament House computer network in recent weeks.
China has been cited as the main suspect by cyber security experts.
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