About 6pm, a message laced with blasphemies appeared on VCAA’s homepage, authored by somebody utilizing the alias “DaggerElite”, declaring to have actually hacked the website and offered VCE tests to “numerous trainees statewide”.
The hacker declared they had actually breached the security of not just VCAA, however the authority’s external printing service providers, from which they had actually downloaded the VCE tests. They then declared to have actually sent out the tests to the trainees by means of an e-mail address coming from a law practice, whose system they likewise hacked.
“The success of their project might not have actually been possible without all their assistance together,” they composed with mock appreciation.
In a declaration, VCAA verified its website had actually been hacked and it was now examining how substantial the hack was.
“There is no indicator that examination documents from today or previous weeks have actually been accessed,” it stated in a quick.
The hack comes simply 2 years after the federal government purchased an evaluation into the 2024 examination duration after VCAA inadvertently released 56 test documents that provided countless trainees a benefit over others.
VCAA’s then-chief executive Kylie Smith resigned after the bungle, before the board was sacked in 2025.
There were likewise mistakes in documents in the 2022 and 2023 examination durations, which triggered other evaluations.
The 2026 VCE examination duration still has a week to run, concluding with language tests on November 18. Outcomes are set to be launched on December 10.
Alexander Darling is a breaking news press reporter at The Age. He has actually formerly operated at the ABC, in addition to Horsham’s Wimmera Mail-Times and Triple M radio stations in NSW.Link through e-mail.
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