After an alleged data breach in December, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology was called to a Monday hearing by the Senate Environment and Communications Committee where agency representatives would not confirm or deny details of the purported breach, ZDNet reports. When questioned, agency CEO Rob Vertessy “redirected his response to the new supercomputer the department was receiving,” the report states. "I'm not going to comment on media stories and speculations — there's quite a number of them and there's some wild stuff in there as well — I can't go through all of those storylines and tell you if they're accurate or not," Vertessy said.
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