"Cyber Attack on Australia's TPG Telecom Affects 15,000 Customers"

TPG Telecom, an Australian telecommunications company, has been hit by a cyberattack that has put the data of 15,000 customers at risk. On December 13, Mandiant notified the company that it had discovered evidence of unauthorized access to a hosted exchange service. TPG Telecom then notified customers the following day, on December 14, that the affected service hosts email accounts for 15,000 iiNet and Westnet customers, both of which are owned by the telecommunications company. According to TPG Telecom, a preliminary analysis indicated that the attacker was looking for cryptocurrency and financial data. This is the third cyberattack on an Australian telecommunications company since October 2022. Telstra, the country's largest telecommunications company, was hit by a data breach in October 2022, affecting about 30,000 past and present employees. In October, Optus was hacked, resulting in a data breach affecting 10 million customers. In December 2022, Telstra disclosed that an internal Information Technology (IT) error resulted in a data leak that affected hundreds of thousands of customers. Due to the number of damaging cyberattacks targeting Australia in recent months, the government has decided to begin developing a new cybersecurity strategy in December 2022 in hopes of helping the nation strengthen its critical infrastructure and government networks, strengthening its cybersecurity capabilities.

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