The chief of Australia’s second-largest telecom company Optus resigned on Monday (Nov 20) after a massive network-wide outage, earlier this month and one of Australia’s largest data breaches, last year.

Australia: Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin quits after network-wide outage

Optus is scrambling to regain public support after Wednesday’s 14-hour outage by offering “eligible” customers a free data pack, as it faces a Senate inquiry and separate government review.

Optus outage causes chaos in Australia before services restored

Life turned upside-down for millions of Australians on Wednesday (Nov 8) as the country’s second-biggest telecom network Optus suffered a major outage.’ The disruption in Optus networks impacted as many as 10 million people in the country, with health, financial and transportation sectors also getting severely impacted.

Health, emergency, financial services hit in Australia as telecom giant Optus suffers outage, now restored

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd said that its unit Dialog faced a cyber attack that potentially affected 1,000 current and former employees and fewer than 20 clients, weeks after a massive data breach at another Australian unit, Optus.

World Business Watch: Singtel's Dialog unit faces cyber attack weeks after Optus data breach

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday that the country’s federal police will be launching an investigation into the data breach affecting Optus customers.

Australia launches 'Operation Guardian' to protect Optus data breach victims

After a hacking into Australia's second-biggest telecom company on Monday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the country will modify its privacy laws to allow banks to respond more quickly to such attacks.

Optus cyber attack: Australia plans privacy change, says prime minister

Massive cyberattack has hit around 10 million Australians, possible leading to the leak of their crucial personal details. Optus, the Australian unit of the telecom firm, said that it is investigating the unauthorised access of customer details including home addresses, driving licence and passport numbers after the cyber attack.

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