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Hackers Attack New Zealand’s Treasury
New Zealand’s annual budget has been thrown into disarray after the main opposition National Party released parts of it early and the Treasury Department said its computer systems had been hacked. “Following this morning’s media reports of a potential leak of budget information, the Treasury has gathered sufficient evidence to indicate that its systems have been deliberately and systematically hacked,” Treasury Secretary Gabriel Makhlouf said in an emailed statement on Tuesday in Wellington. “The Treasury has referred the matter to the police on the advice of the National Cyber Security Centre.” The ... (full story)