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Government agencies were thrown into turmoil today with an IT network outage affecting services across the Northern Territory. While the issue has now been mitigated, NT government systems, including those used by health and emergency services, experienced intermittent disruptions over 12 hours.

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00:02Hospitals, schools, police, every NT government department impacted by today's network outage.
00:11Worryingly some triple zero calls were also affected.
00:15I can confirm here since the start of the outage at 3am this morning there has only
00:21been three phone calls that we couldn't answer in time.
00:25That were referred to us very soon after that by Telstra.
00:30Luckily emergency services responded quickly.
00:33None of them was high risk or had any consequences.
00:37It's just routine police follow ups.
00:39No lives lost but plenty of frustration for those trying to use or access the systems.
00:46From prosecution to policing to children and families to housing all those frontline service
00:53providers will have had an impact today.
00:56Workarounds for essential services like the hospital were put into place.
01:01The government this afternoon saying they had identified the problem.
01:05While they searched for a permanent fix they have ruled out one potential pause.
01:12I can guarantee you it's not a cyber hack.
01:14This is something that is internal.
01:17It's a bit like getting in your car one day and it goes even though there's been no signs
01:20the car was going to break down prior.
01:21A tech roadblock temporarily turning off the territory.
01:25I can't pick them up.
01:25We need you to momentos in a족 these features to be hacked so I said you won't try that
01:28Unless the
01:29perfectly accessible threat 가까rd should play this event as well.
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