Josh Taylor reports: The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued Telstra a direction to comply with the privacy clause in the Telecommunications Consumer Protection (TCP) code, following a 2011 privacy breach that left the details of 734,000 broadband customers vulnerable. In December last year, Telstra inadvertently exposed customer information online after one of…
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AU: Telstra breached customers’ privacy
Jacqueline Le reports: The communications watchdog has slammed Telstra for publishing the personal details of more than 700,000 customers online for most of last year. As many as 734,000 Telstra customers had their names, addresses and, in some cases, driver’s licence details and dates of birth, published online between March and December 2011. The user…
AU: Hackers hit Telstra site (updated)
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…
Telstra privacy breach was ‘one little oops’
Andrew Colley reports: It was “one little oops” that led Telstra to expose over 800,000 customer records on the web last December. That was the way Telstra’s security operations specialist Scott McIntyre described the mystery cause of the massive privacy breach at an IT security event on Wednesday, getting in ahead of a heavily delayed…
Inside Telstra’s customer information breach
Darren Pauli has a follow-up piece in SC Magazine on how Telstra responded to a breach it had in December where thousands of customers’ data were exposed online.
Telstra site fails AGAIAN to secure customer details
Once again Australian Telecom Giant Telstra has failed to secure its clients. music feeds has a explained the most recent leak and contains screen shots of the data. After telstra was alerted, once again it took them up to an hour to take the site offline for repairs.. Now this is not the first time this has happened to telstra, not so…