Security News > 2022 > October > Telstra Telecom Suffers Data Breach Potentially Exposing Employee Information
Australia's largest telecommunications company Telstra disclosed that it was the victim of a data breach through a third-party, nearly two weeks after Optus reported a breach of its own.
"There has been no breach of Telstra's systems," Narelle Devine, the company's chief information security officer for the Asia Pacific region, said.
"And no customer account data was involved."
It said the breach targeted a third-party platform called Work Life NAB that's no longer actively used by the company, and that the leaked data posted on the internet concerned a "Now-obsolete Telstra employee rewards program."
The data was "Basic in nature," Devine said.
The company did not reveal how many employees were affected, but a Reuters report pegged the number at 30,000, citing internal staff email sent by Telstra.
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