Telstra outage in Australia disrupts trains and payments; no evidence of ‘malicious’ activity

SYDNEY: Australia’s biggest telecoms company Telstra said on Wednesday it was urgently investigating the cause of a nationwide outage that cut phone services for thousands of customers, disrupted wireless payments and halted trains.

A fault involving specialised servers that manage time synchronisation at Telstra’s ‌data centres in ⁠Sydney and Melbourne ⁠may have caused the outage, Chief Financial Officer Michael Ackland said, adding there was no evidence of a cyberattack.