in brief Optus has blamed a spam attack on an email outage that occurred between late Wednesday and Thursday morning. "We did have some issues on Wednesday evening and our engineers rebooted the email ...

Optus sent the first notifications of its Triple Zero outage to a recently-retired and unmonitored government email address, where they went unnoticed for over 24 hours. The government had previously ...

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) head Nerida O’Loughlin said the regulator was first alerted of an outage impacting 10 calls and that it had been resolved about 2.40pm on ...

The Australian Federal Police says it is monitoring reports of stolen Optus customer data and credentials allegedly being sold through a number of forums, including the dark web.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Optus sent government notice of its deadly triple-0 outage to the wrong email address. Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short The ...

Telstra has revealed that Optus botched another email address when informing authorities of its fatal September 18 Triple Zero call failures, underscoring the failure of the Singaporean-owned telco ...

WA Acting Premier Rita Saffioti says Optus failed to follow protocols in taking about nine hours before notifying police about a triple-0 outage. She said that delay in notifying authorities was ...

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