Ben Grubb reports:
Telstra has been hit by a “hacking attack” affecting 35,000 customers, just a week after one of its IT staff told a security conference the telco was reviewing how it secured and stored customer information.
The hacking attack occurred on the servers of a third party company that runs Telstra BigPond’s GameArena and Games Shop websites, the telco said in a statement this morning.
Read more on SMH.
Update: Andrew Colley reports that 230,000 passwords have been reset.