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Optus faces compensation claims and reputation headache amid outage chaos
Telecommunications giant Optus is bracing for a potential wave of compensation claims from businesses and consumers impacted by the recent nationwide outage. Latest headache for telco This is just the latest hit to the company’s brand following a major cyber attack in September 2022 in which more than 2 million customers had their personal data … Read more
Brisbane news live: Qld Rail safety failure; Fed govt to conduct review into Optus outage; Why Bill Hayden is an example for today’s MPs
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Optus outage: How woman found out about country-wide blackout through her cat
By Ashley Nickel and Eliza Mcphee For Daily Mail Australia Published: 21:59 EST, 8 November 2023 | Updated: 22:09 EST, 8 November 2023 An Australian woman who was among millions affected by the Optus outage has revealed how she only became aware of the blackout through her cat. The woman told Sydney‘s WSFM radio duo … Read more
Businesses urged to push for compo after Optus outage
A review will be launched into the Optus outage that affected millions of Australians, as the telco ombudsman… Source link
'I would have lost a lot of business yesterday': cafe owner
‘The impact of the outage was very substantial.’ Source link
‘Disturbing’: Liberal Senator James Paterson says extensive Optus outage exposes lack of resilience in telco system
Liberal Senator James Paterson has revealed the one aspect of Optus’ enormous outage that disturbed him the most. More than 10 million customers of the telecommunications giant were unable to make calls and use the internet for several hours on Wednesday due to a “technical network issue”. Australians could not contact their loved ones via … Read more
Optus outage sparks government review; NAB profit hits $7.7b; High Court finds indefinite detention unlawful
Good afternoon, Anthony Segaert with you for the rest of the day. Let’s move briefly to WA, where AAP reports that Airbnb owners will be offered incentives of up to $10,000 to make their properties available to long-term tenants. The scheme is part of a slew of changes introduced by the Cook government to boost … Read more
Kelly Bayer Rosmarin should have said something instead of nothing
The last thing you want is for a hostile pack of politicians to be conveying to the public their version of updates. Medibank adopted this approach quite successfully when it fell victim to a cyberattack last year. Loading In response to the disaster this week, Optus posted on social media early on Wednesday saying it … Read more
Victorian government to review telco relationship
Allan said the disruption was distressing for affected customers, adding that the telco needed to do better to provide an important service to the community. Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas on Thursday morning said she understood it would have been distressing not to be able to contact hospitals during the outage. “But I want to assure … Read more