AWI chief not happy over disruption to wool sales from cyber attack

Vernon Graham
March 2 2020 - 1:30pm
NOT A HAPPY VEGEMITE: Australian Wool Innovation CEO, Stuart McCullough, said growers had been warning for six years about the wool auction system's reliance on a single software platform.
NOT A HAPPY VEGEMITE: Australian Wool Innovation CEO, Stuart McCullough, said growers had been warning for six years about the wool auction system's reliance on a single software platform.

Australian Wool Innovation has blasted the disruption to wool auctions caused by a ransomware attack on the wool selling system's main software supplier, Talman.

Vernon Graham

Vernon Graham

National machinery and property writer

Former editor of The Land, former Fairfax Media Agricultural Editor

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