{"id":38742,"date":"2026-05-05T04:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=38742"},"modified":"2026-05-05T04:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:56:11","slug":"significant-cyber-incident-downgraded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/significant-cyber-incident-downgraded\/","title":{"rendered":"Significant cyber incident downgraded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The NSW Chief Cyber Security Officer has downgraded the recently declared \u2018significant cyber incident\u2019 allegedly involving a Treasury staff member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her declaration comes after the Taskforce the Government established in response to the data breach confirmed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The incident has been contained and is now in the recovery phase; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Agencies have implemented appropriate remediation measures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While legal reviews are continuing, efforts to date to determine any potential impacts on active or past government procurements show that no project has been adversely affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thank again Cyber Security NSW, the Taskforce, NSW Treasury and the NSW Police for their&nbsp;rapid actions since the breach was discovered, including launching Strike Force Civic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The matter remains before the courts&nbsp;and is subject to an internal investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Chief Cyber Security Officer has downgraded the recently declared \u2018significant cyber incident\u2019 allegedly involving a Treasury staff member. Her declaration comes after the Taskforce the Government established in response to the data breach confirmed: While legal reviews are continuing, efforts to date to determine any potential impacts on active or past government procurements &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/significant-cyber-incident-downgraded\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Significant cyber incident downgraded&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38743,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38742\/revisions\/38743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}