$557 million claimed ATO identity security check
More than 15-thousand taxpayer files have been hacked and half a billion dollars fraudulently claimed by criminals cheating the Australian tax system. Documents released under freedom of information reveal criminals manipulated the ATO's identity security settings and lodged around 557-million dollars in fraudulent tax claims in the past two years.
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00:00 Secondly, over the longer term, what Australia really needs is a secure, universal digital
00:06 identity system.
00:07 It shouldn't necessarily be the case that you can pretend to be somebody just because
00:12 you've got some leaked personal information about that person.
00:16 And the countries that do a good job of this do a more secure, cryptographic digital identity
00:23 system where you can prove who you are without exposing a whole lot of personal information
00:29 about yourself.
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