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An outage left many Optus customers dealing with phone issues overnight.Thousands of customers reported significant issues from 7pm to midnight on Monday, in what 7NEWS understands were two separate events.WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Another Optus outage.Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >>Almost 70 per cent of the reports concerned mobile phone service issues.Customers reported being unable to make calls, and were left furious after the website told them to “just turn their phone off and on again”.“(I…

And as recently last year Singtel was reportedly weighing an initial public offering of Optus, in what would be one of Australia’s largest-ever corporate listings. But the ongoing market volatility scuppered those plans.Optus is fully owned by Singtel, which itself is majority owned by Temasek Holdings, the investment arm of the Singapore government, which owns 55 per cent of the company’s issued share capital.People outside an Optus store on the day of the latest outage.Credit: Chris HopkinsAside from its own…

In the statement, Optus said the outgoing CEO had delivered improved financial performance and market share gains. Appointed CEO in April 2020, she joined Optus after serving various positions in the banking sector, including Commonwealth Bank. She was listed among the Top 25 Women in Asia Pacific Finance and Top 10 Businesswomen in Australia, and is a Fellow of Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. Hired at the start of the global pandemic, Rosmarin exhibited leadership and commitment through a challenging…

There was a perfectly good telephone connected to a landline sitting on a side table positioned handily between my mother’s and father’s favourite lounge chairs, just as it always had.Bank tellers in action in the 1970s.Credit: Fairfax archiveWhy would my mother take a mobile phone into town? She never asked this out loud, of course. It was obvious.She couldn’t use it while driving, and she certainly wouldn’t use it while browsing the shops and chatting to shop assistants and any friends she might encounter.Perish the…

"We are aware Optus experienced a network outage after the upgrade, when a significant increase in addresses being propagated through their network triggered preset failsafes. However, the upgrade was not the root cause," said the Singapore telco, of which Optus is a wholly-owned subsidiary. The November 8 service disruption left many without access to telephone and broadband services, affecting more than 10 million Optus customers, including 400,000 businesses. The hours-long outage also brought down payment systems,…

Byron Kaye / Reuters: Australian telecom Optus says the recent massive outage that impacted 10M+ was caused by “changes to routing information” after a “routine software upgrade” — Australian telecoms provider Optus said on Monday that a massive outage which effectively cut off 40% … Byron Kaye / Reuters: Australian telecom Optus says the recent massive outage that impacted 10M+ was caused by “changes to routing information” after a “routine…

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More than 100,000 current and former customers have joined a class action lawsuit against Australian telecommunications giant Optus over a cybersecurity breach last year that compromised roughly 1.2 million customers, lawyers said. Starting with the Optus breach in September, a spate of cyber attacks on Australia's corporate sector has exposed data from tens of millions of customers online and led the government to set up a new cyber security body and overhaul rules the home minister has called "bloody useless". Major…

Australia's largest telecoms firm Telstra Corp Ltd said that 132,000 customers were impacted by an internal error that led to disclosure of customer details. Telstra, which has 18.8 million customer accounts equivalent to three-quarters of Australia's population, said an internal review found the details were made publicly available due to "a misalignment of databases". Telstra referred Reuters to a company blog post, that said "some customers' names, numbers and addresses" were listed when they should not have been. "We…

More personal details of customers of Australia's biggest health insurer Medibank Private Ltd, hit by a massive cyber attack, were released, with the company expecting this to happen daily after it declined to pay ransom to the hacker. Health records related to mental health and alcohol use of hundreds of customers have been released in the dark web in the latest data dump after the attacker uploaded two data sets, local media reported. "Unfortunately, we expect the criminal to continue to release stolen customer data…