Austalia’s Optus says ‘deeply sorry’ for cyberattack By Reuters

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s second-largest telcoms agency Optus, owned by Singapore Telecommunications, on Saturday ran a full-page apology in main newspapers for a “devastating” cyberattack 10 days in the past and pointed affected clients to a brand new assist website.

“We’re deeply sorry {that a} cyberattack has occurred on our watch,” the corporate stated within the discover.

“We all know that is devastating and that we’ll have to work arduous to regain your belief,” it stated.

The brand new web page on the corporate’s web page provided help to clients whose knowledge has been breached, together with change drivers’ licenses, passport and well being care card numbers.

The corporate has agreed to pay the price of changing passports of compromised clients, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated on Friday.

“We shall be in contact with clients who’ve had their passport doc quantity uncovered,” Optus stated on its web page.

Australian police stated on Friday they’d arrange an operation to beef up safety of greater than 10,000 Optus clients whose id credentials had been shared on-line because of the knowledge breach.

Authorities have declined to touch upon their investigation and energy to seek out the hacker because the telcoms big on Sept. 22 first reported the theft of the information of as much as 10 million accounts, equal to 40% of Australia’s inhabitants.