{"id":1670998,"date":"2022-10-04T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670998"},"modified":"2022-10-04T01:52:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:52:30","slug":"australias-telstra-hit-by-data-breach-two-weeks-after-attack-on-optus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australias-telstra-hit-by-data-breach-two-weeks-after-attack-on-optus\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Telstra hit by data breach, two weeks after attack on Optus"},"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\">24<\/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-telstra-hit-by-data-breach-two-weeks-after-attack-on-optus%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=1670998&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>By Byron Kaye and Renju Jose<\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY (Reuters) \u2013     Australia\u2019s largest telecoms firm Telstra Corp Ltd said on Tuesday it had suffered what it called a small data breach, a disclosure that comes two weeks after its main rival Optus was left reeling by a massive cyberattack.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Telstra, which has 18.8 million customer accounts equivalent to three-quarters of Australia\u2019s population, said an intrusion of a third-party organisation exposed some employee data dating back to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>According to local media, a Telstra internal staff email put the number of affected current and former employees at 30,000.<\/p>\n<p>The data that was taken was \u201cvery basic in nature\u201d, limited to names and email addresses, a company spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe it\u2019s been made available now in an attempt to profit from the Optus breach,\u201d the spokesperson also said without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>Telstra did not comment on the number of people affected or when the breach occurred, but said it affected current and former staff only.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s telecommunications, financial and government sectors have been on high alert since Optus disclosed on Sept. 22 that a breach of its systems that may have compromised up to 10 million people\u2019s accounts. The data exposed included home addresses, drivers\u2019 licenses and passport numbers. <\/p>\n<p>Optus owner Singapore Telecommunications Ltd has said it is assessing the potential cost of the attack, while law firms contemplate class action suits.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government, which believes the breach was due to a basic security gap, has continued to slam Optus for describing the attack as sophisticated and for delays in updating affected customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOptus senior management are kidding themselves if they want a medal for the way that they\u2019ve been communicating,\u201d Government Services Minister Bill Shorten told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot even a crocodile\u2019s going to swallow that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An Optus spokesperson declined to comment on Shorten\u2019s remarks, but said the company was working as quickly as possible to provide accurate updates to impacted customers.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Byron Kaye and Renju Jose; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/australias-telstra-hit-by\/attachment\/a-man-walks-as-he-talks-on-his-phone-as\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI93075-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI93075-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Byron Kaye and Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) \u2013 Australia\u2019s largest telecoms firm Telstra Corp Ltd said on Tuesday it had suffered what it called a small data breach, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/business\/australias-telstra-hit-by\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=australias-telstra-hit-by","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670998","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=1670998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}