Tag: Optus

Mass hack exposes ‘gaping’ hole in small business privacy

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government is being urged to close a “gaping” hole in Australia’s antiquated privacy regime by removing the small business carve out, following the country’s largest data breach...

Optus picks up $578m Services Aus contact centre work

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Services Australia is switching its monster contact centre services contract to Optus after more than a decade with Telstra, with the smaller rival inking a new $578 million deal...

Privacy watchdog loses $12m and faces funding cliff

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s national privacy office will lose more than $11 million in the next financial year as it faces a funding cliff and a backlog of investigations and freedom of...

Stolen ID register blocks 300k fraud attempts

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A government register introduced following one of Australia’s worst data breaches on record has blocked more than 300,000 fraudulent attempts to use stolen identity credentials legitimately in 18 months....

3G shutdown in spotlight after minister intervenes

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
Communications minister Michelle Rowland took the unprecedented step this week of intervening in the upcoming shutdown of Telstra and Optus’ 3G networks to ensure that more is done to...

Readying for the looming 3G network shutdown

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The three mobile network operators are progressively closing their 3G networks. TPG Telecom (Vodafone) commenced a progressive 3G network closure from 15 December 2023. Telstra will follow with a...