IBM will pay more than $30 million in compensation for its role in the bungled census, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has indicated. From a report: The Prime Minister described the four Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that caused a 40-hour outage inconveniencing millions of Australians as “utterly predictable, utterly foreseeable.” “I have to say — and I’m not trying to protect anyone here at all — but overwhelmingly the failure was IBM’s and they have acknowledged that, they have paid up and they should have,” he said. “They were being paid big money to deliver a particular service and they failed.”

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