IBM in Settlement Talks With Australia Over Botched Online Census
25 Octubre 2016 - 12:00AM
Noticias Dow Jones
CANBERRA, Australia—International Business Machines Corp. is
negotiating a settlement with Australia's government over a bungled
effort to oversee the country's first online census, senior
executives said Tuesday.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics paid IBM 9.7 million
Australian dollars (US$7.4 million) to oversee technical
preparations and software used for the census, which was knocked
offline for 40 hours on Aug. 9 following a series of small-scale
denial of service attacks from an unidentified location
overseas.
Kerry Purcell, managing director of IBM's operations in
Australia and New Zealand, told a parliamentary inquiry looking
into the failure that subcontractor Nextgen Networks was mainly
responsible for the failure that knocked out the census website,
along with ISP provider Vocus Communications.
But IBM accepted responsibility as the prime contractor, he
said, and had begun talks with Australia's Treasury Department on a
confidential settlement over the outage, estimated to have cost
Australian taxpayers at least A$30 million dollars.
"We are looking to constructively resolve the matter as soon as
possible," Mr. Purcell said. "I am confident we'll be able to
achieve some kind of outcome in the very near future."
Write to Rob Taylor at rob.taylor@wsj.com
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