The fire and rescue service in the state of Victoria, Australia, was forced to shut down its network and turned to operating manually after a cyberattack was launched by an external third party.
Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) acting Commissioner Gavin Freeman revealed that the outage was first discovered when an IT alarm was set off on Thursday.
The hack has impacted most of FRV’s IT systems including network, dispatch, phones, email and an important automated system that opens station doors as soon as a call out is received.
FRV operates 85 fire and rescue stations across the state.
According to a statement published by FRV, community safety has not been compromised and FRV continues to dispatch crews and appliances through mobile phones, pagers and radios
On preliminary investigations it was confirm that this has been a cyber-attack by an external third party and that FRV systems are impacted.
The acting commissioner assured that the attack has not impacted on response times or community safety.
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