With the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) allowing online tax return filing from July this year, the ATO has become part of the commonwealth myGov portal. In a statement released earlier this week, ...

Hackers are harvesting potentially thousands of bogus tax returns as they exploit ongoing security weaknesses in the Australian Taxation Office’s online portal and the commonwealth’s myGov system.

Update July 13: “ATO online services and client portals are now fully available. We apologise for the inconvenience caused by the earlier issues,” an ATO spokesperson said. “The issue did not impact ...

The Australian government’s digital ID app myGovID will undergo a makeover and be renamed “myID” from mid-November. It’s ...

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) paid out more than half a billion dollars to cyber criminals between July 2021 and February 2023, according to an ABC report. Most of the payments were for small ...

They called Centrelink and found out some of their contact details, including residential addresses, had been changed and ...

The Australian government's online service portal myGov has reached an eight-figure milestone, with over 10 million users signed up to the system. According to the government, 160,000 people on ...

Many of these scammers originate overseas, but cybersecurity experts have said there is also an added danger of artificial intelligence being used to impersonate an Australian accent. It has prompted ...

The ASL at Tax will swell from 19,938 to 21,410 over the next financial year, accounting for about two-thirds of the total ...