CANBERRA: The official website for the Australian Taxation Office crashed on Thursday morning with the tax office blaming issues related to hardware faults, which previously crashed the website in December.
The crash, which had still not been repaired by late afternoon, affected various portals related to ATO Online, including the Australian Business Register, while the ATO insisted no taxpayer information had been lost of compromised. The crash comes only two months after the crash in December and is believed to be related to the original problem.
“All available resources are working to resolve this as a priority,” a systems update message on the ATO website read. In December, the Commissioner of Taxation Chris Jordan called the then hardware crashes the “worst unplanned system outage in recent memory”.