Australia's ACCC says Google agreed to pay a AU$55M fine over deals with Telstra and Optus to preinstall only Google Search on Android phones from 2019 to 2021
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Australia's ACCC says Google agreed to pay a AU$55M fine over deals with Telstra and Optus to preinstall only Google Search on Android phones from 2019 to 2021
Australia's competition regulator said on Monday it has begun proceedings against Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) …
Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigns, after the Australian telco's crippling November 8 nationwide outage; CFO Michael Venter plans to act as interim CEO
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Australian telecom Optus says that “changes to routing information” after a “routine software upgrade” caused the November 8 outage that impacted 10M+ customers
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Australian telecom Optus says its mobile network has been restored and “most services should now be online” after an hours-long outage affected 10M+ customers
“One of my patients had a cardiac arrest, I couldn't call an ambulance,” he said. Adj. Professor Warwick Powell : “Could do better” is possibly the understatement of the year. — I'm talking about th...
Australia proposes changes to its consumer privacy rules post the Optus hack, enabling telcos to share IDs with banks for better monitoring during data breaches
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Experts say the Optus hack could cost parent Singtel $420M to $560M for the 2.8M worst-affected customers; Singtel made $1.44B in profit in its fiscal year 2022
The cost for Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. to make good customers exposed to one of Australia's worst data breaches risks wiping …
As the Optus hacker appears to release data of 10,000 customers, Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin says the Australian police are investigating a ransom demand
Australian mobile-phone company Optus said authorities are investigating an online ransom demand following a major data hack …
Australian telco Optus, which has suffered a massive cyberattack, has repeatedly opposed changes to privacy laws to give customers more rights over their data
especially ID numbers — were stored. Here's the response they've now sent through: https://twitter.com/... James / @cashbonez : I'm not concerned by the Optus data leak. Rental applications these days...
Australian telecom Optus suffers a cyberattack, potentially giving the hacker access to data on up to 9.8M customers, per the CEO; the police are investigating
Australian telecoms company says mass breach could have exposed birth dates, phone numbers and other personal data