Telstra rocked by data breach as Optus faces grilling.
Telstra has revealed it’s dealing with its own data breach after 30,000 workers had their personal information compromised. It comes as Optus faces a public grilling for the response to its own cyberattack. Telstra has become the latest telco to be managing a breach of data after thousands of staff members’ personal data was uploaded to the dark web last week.
Up to 30,000 former and current workers have had their names and email addresses uploaded to the breach forum, a Telstra spokesperson said. No customer data has been lost, but Telstra says up to 30,000 former and current staff names and email addresses have been uploaded to the dark web.
The relevant authorities have been notified, we’ve let current employees know, and while the data is of minimal risk to former employees, we will attempt to notify them too. Telstra and NAB have had the names and email addresses of current and former employees accessed by hackers. NAB says the data of its employees was accessed through a third-party provider for an employee and member benefits program.
A Telstra spokesperson confirmed that it was also the subject of a “third party provider” breach. Telstra group executive for transformation, communications and people Alex Badenoch said the data was of a third party which had provided a rewards program for Telstra staff. A total of 12,800 of the 30,000 names leaked were still employed by Telstra. Telstra is reportedly working with the third party to determine the cause of the breach.