Surprise ...... ABS has crashed

[bright.ton42]

 Census Australia

57 mins ·

The ABS and Census websites are currently experiencing an outage. We are working to restore the service. We will keep you updated. Thank you for your patience.

Giggle giggle  knew it would

[youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit]

bright, I was going to change your subject to No Surprise...

but reconsidered- it just wasnt worth it...lol

[imastawka]

Thought I should post this here as well -

I took a screenie of MSN news.

They say you have until Sept 18th to do the paper one, and the 23rd to do it on-line.

So I'll do it at my leisure.     Ta very much

[lyndal1838]

I have filled in the paper form and if I cannot do it online tomorrow I will just stuff it in the envelope and send it off.

Just another stuff up for this Census....not very encouraging overall.  I wonder how long it will be before there are leaks of confidential information.

[youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit]

what a debacle...

[esayaf]

Our tax dollars at work.

[twyngwyn]

Multiple hacking attempts:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-10/australian-bureau-of-statistics-says-census-website-hacked/771...

[tasfleur]

An absolute shambles ....     Mr. Tas (who works in IT) and his colleagues had a sweep early yesterday, and he won $30 this morning.  It was a special sweep concerning how long it would take the internet census site to crash, and he was spot on .... 

[davidc4430]

i thought it was new zealand rugby fans

sure i heard da guy from da ABS sayin it was a HARKA attack

[springyzone]

I did mine online about 6.30am yesterday morning. Was going to save it to submit later but then thought, what the heck, take a gamble you'll still be alive & kicking and at home this evening etc

Pushed submit, all done, the site was working like a charm.

I was surprised to see on it that it said over one million aussies had already submitted theirs online.

Ah well, I suppose it will all be up and running okay for the next few days. I do hope most people tick the box for allowing their info to be released in 100 years. I do a lot of family research and the 1901 and 1911 british census forms have been a godsend. It really is a criminal shame if info is destroyed. None of us will be here in 100 years anyway so what will it hurt?