A NSW Treasury official has been charged by cyber crime detectives over an alleged data breach involving thousands of sensitive government documents.
NSW Police on Monday arrested and charged a 45-year-old with accessing or modifying restricted data after receiving reports that more than 5600 sensitive documents had allegedly been accessed and downloaded by a staff member.
In a statement, police said that detectives attached to the state’s cybercrime squad commenced an investigation and arrested the man on Monday afternoon. They executed a search warrant at a home in Homebush West and seized electronic devices including a hard drive.
The bureaucrat was granted conditional bail and is due to face Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday, June 3.
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey said the government had declared a significant cyber incident after internal security monitoring detected the transfer of the documents to an external server.
The files covered multiple government departments and projects, the government confirmed in a statement.
“While the police are continuing their investigation, they believe all the alleged stolen data has been located, is now secure, and there was no external compromise to the agency’s system,” the government said in a statement.
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