Singtel confirms 2020 data breach after cyber-attack on Optus

Parent company of Australian telco says that the personal data of 129,000 customers and 23 businesses was obtained in a cyber-attack two years ago

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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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