News
VCAA investigating after website hacked during exam period
- Newsrooms
- 2
- Last 3 hours
- 5 reports
- Momentum
- New
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 2 to 3 newsrooms by 3:30am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowWhy it’s moving
- One side onlyOnly left-leaning newsrooms so far (4). Nothing from the right yet.
A message appeared on VCAA’s homepage at about 6pm, from an alias claiming to have sold VCE exams to “hundreds of students”.
ABC News (Australia) didn’t include a summary, so this is The Sydney Morning Herald’s, from its report on the same story.2
The story so far
2 newsrooms- Reports
- 5
- Newsrooms and sources
- 2
- Last 3 hours
- 5
First with it: The Sydney Morning Herald, 34 min before anyone else.
Reported by 2 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where it’s heading
Probably peakedStories in this position rarely added another newsroom from here.
Likely 2 to 3 newsrooms by 3:30am AEDT (2 most likely), and 2 to 3 by Thu, 12 Nov, 9:30pm AEDT. 2 now.
| When | Likely range | Most likely |
|---|---|---|
| Now | 2 | 2 |
| In 1 hours (10:30pm AEDT) | 2 to 2 | 2 |
| In 3 hours (12:30am AEDT) | 2 to 2 | 2 |
| In 6 hours (3:30am AEDT) | 2 to 3 | 2 |
| In 12 hours (9:30am AEDT) | 2 to 3 | 2 |
| In 24 hours (9:30pm AEDT) | 2 to 3 | 2 |
Based on how similar stories played out last week. Right 92% of the time. How this works
Every report, in order
5 reports from 2 newsrooms, first to latest. Each links to the original.
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