Australia's Telstra reveals data breach two weeks after atta...

SYDNEY - Australia's largest telecoms firm Telstra said on Tuesday it had suffered what it called a small data breach, a disclosure that comes two weeks after main rival Optus was left reeling by a massive cyber attack. Telstra, which has 18.8 million customer accounts, equivalent to three-quarters of Australia's population, said an intrusion of a third-party organisation exposed some employee data dating back to 2017. A Telstra internal staff e-mail put the number of affected current and former employees at 30,000, according to local media. The data that was taken was "very basic in nature", limited to names and e-mail addresses, a company spokesman said in a statement. "We believe it has been made available now in an attempt to profit from the Optus breach," the spokesman also said without elaborating. Telstra did not comment on the number of people affected or when the breach occ...