- Singapore Telecommunications Ltd unit Dialog faced a cyber attack on October 10 that potentially affected 1,000 current and former employees and fewer than 20 clients.
- Singtel first detected the attack on Australia-based IT firm Dialog on September 10.
- Dialog’s systems were completely independent of Optus and IT unit NCS, and there was no evidence of any link between the incidents of data breaches at Dialog and Optus.
- Last week, Dialog realized “a very small sample” of its data, including some employee personal information, had been published on the dark web.
- In September, the breach at Optus, Australia’s second-largest mobile operator, compromised the data of up to 10 million customers, Reuters reported.
- The Optus attack triggered an overhaul of consumer privacy rules to facilitate targeted data sharing between telecommunication firms and banks.
- Recently, Uber Technologies, Inc (NYSE:UBER) held the Lapsus$ group responsible for its recent hack. The breach forced Uber to shut down some internal systems temporarily.
- Lapsus$ was held responsible for the hacks of Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT), Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd (OTC: SSNLF), Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ: NVDA), and Okta Inc (NASDAQ: OKTA).
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Ainos Appoints Amanda Sung As New Chief Financial Officer
Current CFO Celia Wu announces her retirement and transition to consulting role
Sung brings nearly two decades of public company audit and compliance experience with major international accounting firms
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