The Federal Government has confirmed the MyGov website, which is used to access Centrelink services online, was hit by a denial of service cyber attack this morning.
A denial of service attack is where hackers flood a website with users so that the site becomes overloaded.
It's the type of attack that was used to bring down the Census website in 2016.
Demand for MyGov services has risen dramatically, with many Australians who have been stood down due to extra coronavirus restrictions seeking access to unemployment benefits.
This was no cyber attack, nor was there an attack when the election site crashed some time ago. The security system simply sees it as an attack when multitudes of people all try logging onto one website at the same time, and shuts down to protect itself. Myself and my family predicted both before it happened. Computer systems cannot tell the difference between a denial of service attack, or a massive overload.
