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SingTel Suffers Another Data Hack After Giant Optus Breach
10Oct By adminNo Comments
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SingTel Suffers Another Data Hack After Giant Optus Breach

[ad_1] A second Australian business owned by Singapore Telecommunications suffered a cyberattack. A second Australian business owned by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. suffered a cyberattack, compounding the data-security crisis at the company following the huge data breach at mobile-phone operator Optus.A hack on technology consulting company Dialog, which SingTel bought earlier this year, may have accessed data on fewer than 20 clients and 1,000 current and former staff, according to a Dialog statement issued by SingTel on Monday. Dialog found out on Oct. 7 that a “very small sample” of its data, including personal employee information, had been published on the so-called Dark Web. The attack itself took place almost a month earlier, on Sept. 10. A second hack at a SingTel-owned b...
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Giant Data Hack in Australia Risks Eating Into SingTel’s Profit
29Sep By adminNo Comments
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Giant Data Hack in Australia Risks Eating Into SingTel’s Profit

[ad_1] The cost for SingTel to make good customers exposed to one of Australia’s worst data breaches poses big risk to it. The cost for Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. to make good customers exposed to one of Australia's worst data breaches risks wiping out more than one-quarter of its annual profit.Optus, SingTel's Australian mobile-phone business, last week revealed hackers accessed the personal information of as many as 9.8 million customers -- over one-third of the population. Some 2.8 million of them lost details of passports, drivers licenses or government-issued medical identity cards, triggering concerns about large-scale identity fraud, according to the government. One week after the hack was disclosed, the scale a...
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