{"id":1652315,"date":"2022-09-22T01:50:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T05:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652315"},"modified":"2022-09-22T01:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T05:51:07","slug":"optus-warns-cyberattack-may-have-exposed-australian-client-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/optus-warns-cyberattack-may-have-exposed-australian-client-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Optus warns cyberattack may have exposed Australian client details"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foptus-warns-cyberattack-may-have-exposed-australian-client-details%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652315&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>SYDNEY (Reuters) \u2013     Optus, the Australian unit of telecoms firm Singapore Telecommunications, said it was investigating the possible unauthorised access of home addresses, passport numbers and phone numbers of customers after a cyberattack.<\/p>\n<p>Wireless carrier Optus said in a statement on Thursday it had immediately shut down the attack after discovering it, and that payment details and account passwords had not been compromised.<\/p>\n<p>It said it had notified Australian Federal Police, and that the investigation into whether current and former customers\u2019 information were accessed was underway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOptus is working with the Australian Cyber Security Centre to mitigate any risks to customers,\u201d Optus said in the statement on its website. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are devastated to discover that we have been subject to a cyberattack that has resulted in the disclosure of our customers\u2019 personal information to someone who shouldn\u2019t see it,\u201d said Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian newspaper reported that up to 9 million customers may have been affected. Reuters could not verify the number and Optus did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOptus has also notified key financial institutions about this matter. While we are not aware of customers having suffered any harm, we encourage customers to have heightened awareness across their accounts, including looking out for unusual or fraudulent activity and any notifications which seem odd or suspicious,\u201d the Optus statement added.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Kirsty Needham; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/optus-warns-cyberattack-may\/a-woman-uses-her-mobile-phone-as-she-walks-past\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8L05B-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8L05B-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY (Reuters) \u2013 Optus, the Australian unit of telecoms firm Singapore Telecommunications, said it was investigating the possible unauthorised access of home addresses, passport numbers and phone numbers of customers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}