Fireplace Rescue Victoria has confirmed its IT outage is the results of a cyber-attack.
Yesterday, the company announced an outage affecting its dispatch system, its telephones, Web entry and e-mail.
Performing commissioner Gavin Freeman instructed a press convention yesterday afternoon that the methods may very well be offline for “three or 4 days”.
“Within the early hours of [Thursday] morning FRV turned conscious of an IT outage of our methods,” he mentioned.
“It was someplace round 4 or 5 [in the] morning I obtained the cellphone name,” he mentioned, including that the choice to close down the methods was made at 7.30 am.
“Our methods have been compromised…we have referred to as in help from the broader authorities and the federal authorities.”
The company is utilizing radios, cellphones, and pagers to “get the fireplace vans out the door”.
Freeman didn’t say whether or not it was a ransomware assault, however mentioned: “I am not conscious of any contact from anyone. We’re nonetheless making an attempt to analyze what has brought about this.
“We’ll present additional data as quickly as we learn about it.”
Replace: at 11:26am on Friday, FRV confirmed that the outage was attributable to a cyber assault.
“Preliminary investigations verify this has been a cyber assault by an exterior third occasion and that FRV methods are impacted”, its statement said.
“We’ve taken decisive motion in response to this incident and are working across the clock with specialist cyber safety corporations and our companions within the State and Federal Governments, together with the Australian Cyber ​​Safety Centre.
“FRV will present extra data because it comes at hand.”
