Australian Census website shut down on census night after 4 DDoS attacks

Heart44 writes: News sites are reporting that the Australian census website has been shut down until further notice. This happened on census night, Tuesday (Australian time) August 9th, 2016. This is the first attempt at an online census where online is the default data collection method. You had to call an often busy number to get a paper form.

This is on top of a long running controversy that the Australian Bureau of Statistics will keep the names and addresses of everyone for five years. I presume more useful links will appear over time.