Many Dubbo residents were hit by data breaches from Transport for NSW during the past two years, now that department has been hit by another data breach.

This comes less than a year after the Auditor-General delivered a damning report into the department’s cyber security failings.

In July 2021, the Auditor-General was forced to redact parts of the Managing Cyber Risks Report as the potential risks to cyber security discovered were significant enough that Transport for NSW, Sydney Trains, and Cyber Security NSW feared the likelihood of an attack on their systems.

Now it has been revealed that the Transport for NSW authorised inspection scheme (AIS) online application was hit with a cyber-attack in early April. The application is used by vehicle examiners to conduct road worthiness inspections and the department is now contacting examiners impacted. Transport has not confirmed how many examiners or drivers data was impacted.

The breach is the latest in a longline of data breaches to have occurred on Victor Dominello’s watch despite consistent warnings about the state government’s cyber security policy.