Gold Coast City Council has admitted that it was in charge of a project that cut the cables on Optus’ main fibre cable, leaving many Queenslanders without any landline, mobile or internet connections.

It initially denied any wrongdoing, before they admitted that they failed to check the locations of the cable before it was severed during construction of a "pumps and pipes" project which is not yet officially part of the State Government’s $9 billion water grid.

Lawyers are expecting that businesses will make claims of compensation against Optus and possibly the contractor who had cut the cables. Optus has apologised for the cut, and is not ruling out any compensation.

Hundreds of tax cheats in America have turned themselves in to the IRS after a bank computer technician in Liechtenstein came forward with the names of the tax cheats who had set up accounts in the small European country, according to ABC News.

The bank clerk, Heinrich Kieber, has now been branded a thief after he violated its bank secrecy laws. He is in hiding and will testify to a Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations via a video statement from a undisclosed location.

The investigation will also focus on the Swiss bank UBS and its allegations that it help wealthy Americans hide their money through shell companies in Liechtenstein.

He reportedly sold three CD’s full of names and data to tax authorities to the authorities, including Germany, France and Italy; with tax authorities in Italy will publish the names. In Germany, it had lead to several CEOs on tax evasion.

San Francisco has been forced to admit that they were still paying the salary of the same guy that locked them out of their own system after he refused to give the password that would allow them to regain access.

It has also been forced to call help from Silicon Valley, including Cisco, to help get its data back after Terry Childs, the hacker, set a master password giving him full control over the network. The mayor of San Francisco says that it could take eight weeks to get the data back.

Childs was also a convicted felon, with the SF Chronicle saying that he was convicted of aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary charges in 1982 and was on probation until 1987.

The mayor has said that it would not change how it would govern the city, and was reassuring its residents that it would get its data back.