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Following Optus' woes, thousands of Telstra workers have had their details leaked onto the dark web thanks to a third-party security breach.

The affected individual said they had also been caught in the Optus hack and had done everything possible to protect their information by various methods including changing passwords. They had gone to Service NSW at Wallsend for new driver's licence number after the Lifestyle Solutions hack but were told it…

Thousands of current and former Telstra staff have found themselves implicated in the latest data breach, as Optus deals with the fallout of a cyber attack.

Australia’s digital landscape is expanding. Unfortunately, our cybersecurity capacity is not keeping pace, as the Optus hack displayed.

At least 2.1 million of the 9.8 million victims of the Optus hack need to replace their ID, and there’s another rate rise on the cards today.

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Investigations into the Optus breach are now centring on the question of whether the telco made a basic error by using real customers' data.