— Census Australia (@ABSCensus) ABS & Census website are unavailable. The ABS will release a statement at 9am about when Australians can expect to log back onto the census site. He says the ABS shut down the site to “protect the integrity of the data”, rather than the site crashing. Meanwhile, the official Twitter account continued to reassure people “the online form and website are operating smoothly as expected”. David Kalisch, the ABS chief statistician, told ABC news radio the site was subject to a sequence of denial of service attacks emanating from overseas.

Source: The Guardian August 09, 2016 11:22 UTC