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Optus reveals at least 2.1 million ID numbers exposed in massive data breach : Telco says 150,000 passport and 50,000 Medicare numbers have been stolen as it ...
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Big problem with new Optus text: Optus has informed current and former customers whether their driver licence and card numbers were exposed in the cyberattack ...
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Big problem with new Optus text
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Optus reveals at least 2.1 million ID numbers exposed in massive data breach : Telco says 150,000 passport and 50,000 Medicare numbers have been stolen as it ...
theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/03/optus-commissions-independent-review-of-data-breach
Optus reveals at least 2.1 million ID numbers exposed in massive data ...
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Big problem with new Optus text: Optus has informed current and former customers whether their driver licence and card numbers were exposed in the cyberattack ...
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Big problem with new Optus text
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Optus customer loses $10,000, digital identity in phone porting, SIM-swap scam: Andrew Ryder's rainy-day bank account was drained in just one day ...
abc.net.au/news/2024-04-10/optus-customer-victim-phone-porting-sim-swap-scam/103676088
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Singtel rules out selling Australian unit Optus: Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) , Southeast Asia's largest telecom operator, reiterated on Wednesday that ...
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Singtel rules out selling Australian unit Optus
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Australian register of stolen data blocks more than 300,000 attempts of identity fraud
abc.net.au/news/2024-04-10/australians-data-protected-from-thousands-of-fraud-attempts/103687922
Australian register of stolen data blocks more than 300,000 attempts of ...
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Telstra lifts lid on ‘unacceptable’ triple-zero outage: CEO Vicki Brady says basic errors were behind the outage that left more than 100 Australians unable to ...
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Telstra lifts lid on ‘unacceptable’ triple-zero outage
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Optus’ network boss quits four months after outage: The departure comes after an outage that affected 10 million customers, and while the company is still ...
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Optus’ network boss quits four months after outage
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Optus fined $1.5 million by ACMA for breaches to public safety, customers 'at risk'
abc.net.au/news/2024-03-06/optus-fined-for-public-safety-breaches/103552146
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New regulations ‘will open the floodgates’ on SMS scams: Telstra, TPG and Optus are on a rare unity ticket fighting against proposed changes they say will lead ...
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New regulations ‘will open the floodgates’ on SMS scams
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Telstra posts $1 billion profit, but enterprise unit falls flat: Boss Vicki Brady has lauded the telco’s mobile growth but says some parts of the business are ...
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Telstra posts $1 billion profit, but enterprise unit falls flat
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Concerns for triple-zero services amid 3G shutdown: The government has written to the chief executives of Telstra, Optus and TPG amid fears nearly 1 million ...
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Concerns for triple-zero services amid 3G shutdown
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Optus could be sold to Canadian private equity giant in $18 billion deal: The move, if it goes through, could spark a price war that would benefit Australian ...
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Optus could be sold to Canadian private equity giant in $18 billion deal
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Opposition grills department over lack of warnings about failing triple-0 calls from Optus
abc.net.au/news/2024-02-13/opposition-grills-department-triple-0-calls-optus-during-outage/103460686
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Telcos’ customer complaints spike after Optus outage: Ombudsman Cynthia Gebert says the company’s offers of free data was cold comfort for many Optus customers ...
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Telcos’ customer complaints spike after Optus outage
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Optus reveals 10 times more people affected by triple-0 failures than previously disclosed
abc.net.au/news/2024-01-23/optus-network-outage-triple-0-emergency-calls-wider-than-thought/103380928
Optus reveals 10 times more people affected by triple-0 failures than ...
Quick Glance: Optus: 10-Fold Triple-Zero Failure
  • More than 10 times the number of triple-zero calls failed during Optus’ mass outage than previously reported.

  • Optus failed to conduct welfare checks on over 2000 customers unable to connect to emergency services.

  • Internal review revealed 2468 customers made triple-zero calls during the outage that were unable to go through, with no welfare checks undertaken.

  • Optus interim CEO apologized to customers unable to access triple-zero services during the outage.
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Singtel says not considering divesting from Australia's Optus: Singtel (STEL.SI) said on Tuesday it was not looking to divest from its Optus unit ...
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Singtel says not considering divesting from Australia's Optus