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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Josh Taylor

REVEALED: Singtel confirms 2020 data breach after cyber attack on optus | Rare Historical Photos

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The personal data of 129,000 customers and 23 businesses was obtained from Singtel in a cyber-attack in 2020. Photograph: Edgar Su/Reuters

Just weeks after Optus revealed that the records of 10 million customers had been compromised in a data breach, its parent company, Singtel, is dealing with two of its own data hacks.

Singtel confirmed that a Friday post on a data leak forum contained information obtained from Singtel in a cyber-attack in 2020. It was the same forum where a user last month threatened to release Optus’s stolen data.

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