How fraudsters can hack into your ATO account [Audio]
By Fatima Olumee, Sarah Curnow, and Dan Oakes
The World Today, ABC Radio,
Broadcast Wed 26 Jul 2023 at 12:00pm
The Australian Tax Office has admitted criminals have fraudulently claimed more than half a billion dollars from the Commonwealth by exploiting a gap in the ATO's ID checking system.
ABC Investigations confirmed the security breach after a long battle to get documents under Freedom of Information laws.
Security experts are stunned the fraud is only coming to the public's attention now.
Featured:
Vanessa Teague, Adjunct Professor of Cryptography at the Australian National University
Richard Buckland, Professor of Cyber Crime, University of New South Wales
