Ben Cubby reports: Personal information of more than 130,000 Telstra customers has been exposed in the latest large-scale privacy breach to strike big Australian companies. Telstra said a “misalignment of databases” rather than hacking was responsible for the breach, which saw customer details wrongly made available on the online White Pages and via directory assistance….
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Australia’s Telstra hit by data breach, two weeks after attack on Optus
Byron Kaye and Renju Jose report: Australia’s largest telecoms firm Telstra Corp Ltd (TLS.AX) 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. Telstra, which has 18.8 million customer accounts equivalent to three-quarters of Australia’s…
Telstra service provider hit by cyber attack as hackers claim SIM card information stolen
Anton Nilsson reports: Hackers have claimed they have gained access to “tens of thousands” of SIM cards after a cyber attack against an Australian telecom firm. The victim, Melbourne-based Schepisi Communications, describes itself as a “platinum partner” of Telstra that supplies phone numbers and cloud storage services on behalf of the telecommunications giant. The company’s…
Telstra customer stumbles across contact details of 66,000 fellow customers
Elise Baker reports: A 63-year-old layman, who admits he isn’t a “tech-savvy person”, has somehow been able to access a Telstra database containing the contact details of their customers. Robert Irvine has told 9NEWS he had an issue with his email and thought he might be able to fix it by logging on to his…
AU: Medical records exposed by flaw in Telstra Health’s Argus software
Ben Grubb reports: A flaw in medical software used by more than 40,000 Australian health specialists and distributed by Telstra has potentially exposed Australians’ medical information to hackers, who have been logging into practitioners’ computers and servers to carry out illegal activities. Read more on Sydney Morning Herald.
Telstra glitch sends personal SMS messages to random recipients after fire at exchange
Richard McLeish reports: Personal SMS messages of Telstra customers were sent to random recipients on competing networks across Australia on Thursday afternoon in a huge potential security breach for the telco. Unwitting phone users across Australia took to Twitter to express confusion about receiving random SMS messages from about 3pm. Read more on The Esperance…