Hackers cause Telstra outages in Australia’s eastern states with ‘malicious’ cyber attack

Customers in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne were worst hit, but telco has said no personal data was compromised

Hackers have carried out a malicious" cyber attack on Telstra, creating connectivity issues for some home internet users.

Telstra reported the denial of service attack on its servers on Sunday which led to widespread internet outages in Australia's eastern states.