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VCAA confirms website hacked, says no evidence VCE exam papers accessed

A message appeared on VCAA’s homepage at about 6pm, from an alias claiming to have sold VCE exams to “hundreds of students”.

VCAA confirms website hacked, says no evidence VCE exam papers accessed

We haven't written up this one. The Sydney Morning Herald has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Also reported by 2 other outlets

Read the original at smh.com.au →

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Our latency alert summed away the bucket label and never returned a value

Our checkout service has a latency alert: page someone if the ninety ninth percentile stays above two seconds for ten minutes. In the spring we rewrote it.

  • Latency alert rewritten to sum histogram buckets first
  • Prometheus rule lacked le label, causing buckets loss
  • Added sum by (service, le) to ensure alert firing

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