Two senior IBM staff have “resigned with immediate effect” following the Census debacle, according to reports.The news follows the call from Malcolm Turnbull that heads would roll, made in a press conference on the day following Census night.“My prediction is that there will be some very serious consequences to this,” Turnbull said at the time.IBM Global Technology Services, the Census’ service provider, have reportedly replaced the departed staff with senior executives from IBM’s Asia Pacific services business. IBM had not returned requests for comments at the time of publication.The Census website was unavailable for days after it was pulled offline by Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Census night last month. The ABS blamed denial of service attacks originating from overseas for the outage and said it had closed down the system to ‘ensure the integrity of the data’.Last week, the prime minister’s special cyber security advisor, Alastair MacGibbon said the fiasco would have a “lasting impact” on the public trust in the government to deliver digital services.MacGibbon said he had spent the last “happy month” investigating the “failure” of the delivery of the census. He has been leading a government-commissioned review of the incident. There is also a Senate inquiry into the 2016 Census.IBM has been tight lipped following the debacle, but eventually made a statement days after census night.“We genuinely regret the inconvenience that has occurred,” a spokesperson for the company said at the time. “We want to thank the ABS, the Australian Signal Directorate and Alastair MacGibbon for their continued support.”IBM won the $9.6 million contract from the ABS to host the Census in 2014. Related content feature Expedia poised to take flight with generative AI CTO Rathi Murthy sees the online travel service’s vast troves of data and AI expertise fueling a two-pronged transformation strategy aimed at growing the company by bringing more of the travel industry online. By Paula Rooney Jun 02, 2023 7 mins Travel and Hospitality Industry Digital Transformation Artificial Intelligence case study Deoleo doubles down on sustainability through digital transformation The Spanish multinational olive oil processing company is immersed in a digital transformation journey to achieve operational efficiency and contribute to the company's sustainability strategy. By Nuria Cordon Jun 02, 2023 6 mins CIO Supply Chain Digital Transformation brandpost Resilient data backup and recovery is critical to enterprise success As global data volumes rise, business must prioritize their resiliency strategies. By Neal Weinberg Jun 01, 2023 4 mins Security brandpost Democratizing HPC with multicloud to accelerate engineering innovations Cloud for HPC is facilitating broader access to high performance computing and accelerating innovations and opportunities for all types of organizations. By Tanya O'Hara Jun 01, 2023 6 mins Multi Cloud Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe