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Government's phone system hacked, reveals report from the State's financial watchdog

category dublin | sci-tech | news report author Thursday October 02, 2003 04:15author by hj - ex-tp

Government's phone system hacked, reveals report from the State's financial watchdog .

Anyone got an ireland.com account ??
Can they post the full article?? (Wednesday's Irish Times)

The Irish Times says that the C&AG report has also revealed that telephone fraudsters hacked in to the internal phone system of the Department of Social and Family Affairs last year. The hackers made nearly EUR300,000 worth of calls over two months. In response to the Comptroller's queries, the accounting officer of the Department said it had "reacted swiftly to the intrusion."

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