Telstra, Australia’s largest telecom provider, reported this week that it was the sufferer of a knowledge breach — simply two weeks after its rival telco Optus reported a cyberattack of its personal.
In accordance with a Reuters report, Telstra is downplaying the incident, calling it a “small information breach,” including about 30,000 present and former workers relationship again to 2017 have been compromised.
As compared, Optus suffered a breach of its dwell database of almost 10 million clients.
A Telstra spokesperson mentioned the information uncovered is “very fundamental in nature,” including the corporate views the incident as “…an try and revenue from the Optus breach,” in accordance with Reuters, which added the spokesperson didn’t elaborate additional on any potential hyperlink between the 2 cyberattacks.
