Entire Australian Tax Office website down due to 'hardware failure'

By Peter Martin
Updated January 29 2017 - 11:13am, first published December 12 2016 - 12:38pm
Visitors to the ATO website were greeted with an error message on Monday.
Visitors to the ATO website were greeted with an error message on Monday.
Andrew Leigh: "It's important to retain our gun laws, particularly against recent moves to water them down." Photo: Louise Kennerley
Andrew Leigh: "It's important to retain our gun laws, particularly against recent moves to water them down." Photo: Louise Kennerley

The Tax Office ruled out a census-style "denial of service" attack as the reason for the loss of its entire website, saying the mass failure was due to hardware problems "not being caused by any external factors".

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