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ZDNet Security
The Australian telco's CFO has taken over as interim chief, while outgoing CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin highlighted her session with the Senate.
ZDNet Security
While confirming a software upgrade was carried out on its Singtel Internet Exchange backbone network, the carrier denies this was the root cause of the massive outage suffered by its Australian subsidiary Optus.
ZDNet Security
A technical network fault has been blamed for the hours-long outage that left more than 10 million in Australia without access to telephone and broadband services, including emergency lines.
Graham Cluley
Perhaps the biggest punishment of all will be Dennis Su's name being forever associated with an extraordinarily inept and cack-handed attempt to frighten people out of money.
The Hacker News
A Sydney man has been sentenced to an 18-month Community Correction Order (CCO) and 100 hours of community service for attempting to take advantage of the Optus data breach last year to blackmail its customers. The unnamed individual, 19 when arrested in October 2022 and now 20, used the leaked records stolen from the security lapse to orchestrate an SMS-based extortion scheme. The suspect
ZDNet Security
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner's scrutiny will focus on whether the Singtel-owned mobile operator, as well as its subsidiaries, took "reasonable steps" to safeguard data they held from unauthorised access and misuse.
The Register
Data retention requirements to be considered alongside infosec failings Australian carrier Optus's recent data breach will be investigated by two regulators, the double trouble likely an indicator of the nation's displeasure at the incident – which saw almost ten million locals' personal data exposed online.…
The Register
Customers were allegedly sent texts demanding $1,300 or face having ID used in financial crime Aussie police have cuffed a 19-year-old Sydney resident accused of trying to extort money from victims of the recent cyberattack and digital burglary at national telecommunications provider Optus.…
The Hacker News
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has arrested a 19-year-old teen from Sydney for allegedly attempting to leverage the data leaked following the Optus data breach late last month to extort victims. The suspect is said to have carried out a text message blackmail scam, demanding that the recipients transfer $2,000 to a bank account or risk getting their personal information misused for
Bleeping Computer
The AFP (Australian Federal Police) have arrested a 19-year-old man in Sydney and charged him for allegedly using leaked Optus customer data for extortion. [...]