{"id":1659113,"date":"2022-09-26T21:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T01:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1659113"},"modified":"2022-09-26T21:51:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T01:51:21","slug":"australias-no-2-telco-optus-government-clash-over-massive-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australias-no-2-telco-optus-government-clash-over-massive-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s No. 2 telco Optus, government clash over massive data breach"},"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\">22<\/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%2Faustralias-no-2-telco-optus-government-clash-over-massive-data-breach%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=1659113&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     Australia\u2019s No. 2 telecoms firm Optus, hit by a massive data breach, on Tuesday said its cyber defences were strong, contradicting the government\u2019s analysis as reports emerged that hackers had released data for tens of thousands of customers.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian federal government has blamed Optus for the breach, flagged an overhaul of privacy rules and more fines, and suggested the company had \u201ceffectively left the window open\u201d for hackers to steal data.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Optus Chief Executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin said there was lot of \u201cmisinformation out there\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven we\u2019re not allowed to say much because the police have asked us not to, what I can say \u2026 is that our data was encrypted and we had multiple players of protection,\u201d Rosmarin told ABC Radio. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it is not the case of having some sort of completely exposed API (application programming interface) sitting out there,\u201d Rosmarin added. An API allows two or more computer programs to communicate with each other.<\/p>\n<p>Rosmarin said Optus had briefed authorities after the government\u2019s initial review of the incident. She said most customers understand that \u201cwe are not the villains\u201d and that the company had not done anything deliberate to put data at risk.  <\/p>\n<p>Singapore Telecoms-owned Optus revealed last week that home addresses, drivers\u2019 licenses and passport numbers of up to 10 million customers had been compromised in one of Australia\u2019s biggest data breaches.    <\/p>\n<p>Australian media reported that hackers released the information of about 10,000 customers in an online forum and threatened to release more unless Optus paid $1 million in cryptocurrency.   <\/p>\n<p>Rosmarin said \u201cthe Australian Federal Police (AFP) is all over that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The AFP said it has been working closely with overseas law enforcement agencies to find the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Council Of Financial Regulators, which includes the central bank, on Tuesday said its members have been working together in response to the cyber attack. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Renju Jose, Lewis Jackson and Byron Kaye; Editing by Gerry Doyle)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/australias-no-2-telco\/attachment\/file-photo-a-woman-uses-her-mobile-phone-as-she-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8Q01K-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8Q01K-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY (Reuters) \u2013 Australia\u2019s No. 2 telecoms firm Optus, hit by a massive data breach, on Tuesday said its cyber defences were strong, contradicting the government\u2019s analysis as reports emerged<\/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-1659113","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\/1659113","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=1659113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659113\/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=1659113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}