Singtel assesses potential cost of Optus Australian data breach

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Cyberattack on Australian telco Optus affects 1.2 million customers

MELBOURNE: Singapore Telecommunications said on Monday it was assessing the potential cost of a massive cybersecurity breach at its Optus arm, Australia's second-largest telco, 12 days ago.

Last week, an unidentified person posted online that they had released personal details of 10,000 Optus customers. Optus on Monday said it had appointed Deloitte to run an independent external review of the cyberattack. Optus also confirmed on Monday that personal information and at least one valid form of identification of about 1.2 million customers was compromised.

 

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OPTUS let this happen knowingly. I had reported the hack by one of Optus’s contractors and Optus did nothing. Contact me for evidence. Thanks

At times you just wondered if this data breach was a consequence of actually a cyberattack or just internal culprits selling the data !

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