Telstra Customers Impacted by Massive Data Breach
Telstra Data Breach under Investigation by Privacy Commissioner
What Happened? Account details and phone numbers of telecommunications company Telstra’s customers were potentially compromised in a newly reported data breach. The Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, launched an investigation into Telstra’s data breach which occurred when its customer service website was openly accessible online.
Date of Breach: December 2011
Size of Loss: The grocery chain admits over 100 people who used the self-checkout counters in 23 of their northern California Lucky stores (and one SaveMart).
Affected Individuals: About one million
Geographic Focus: National
Data Contained: Account details including account numbers, phone numbers and credit card details of just fewer than one million Telstra customers were potentially compromised by the breach.
Additional Information: As a precaution, the company reset the passwords of around 60,000 customers and notified the Privacy Commissioner.
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