{"id":1016029,"date":"2026-06-22T07:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T02:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016029"},"modified":"2026-06-22T07:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T02:18:46","slug":"kpmg-australia-scandal-widens-after-it-confirms-optus-data-was-also-misused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/22\/kpmg-australia-scandal-widens-after-it-confirms-optus-data-was-also-misused\/","title":{"rendered":"KPMG Australia scandal widens after it confirms Optus data was also misused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: KPMG Australia staff shared sensitive information about telecom firm Optus with another internal team bidding for an audit contract for its rival Telstra in a breach of ethics, the firm&#8217;s chairman told a parliamentary hearing on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The admission confirms whistleblower allegations that KPMG earlier said were unsubstantiated in previous internal and external investigations. <\/p>\n<p>In the second major scandal to hit a Big Four accounting firm in Australia since 2023, KPMG \u200chas been under fire \u2060after the whistleblower \u2060alleged it misused confidential board papers from real estate company Lendlease to support bids for major audit tenders for Westpac, a large bank, and Dexus , a property firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: KPMG Australia staff shared sensitive information about telecom firm Optus with another internal team bidding for an audit contract for its rival Telstra in a breach of ethics, the firm&#8217;s chairman told a parliamentary hearing on Friday. The admission confirms whistleblower allegations that KPMG earlier said were unsubstantiated in previous internal and external investigations. In the second major scandal to hit a Big Four accounting firm in Australia since 2023, KPMG \u200chas been under fire \u2060after the whistleblower \u2060alleged it misused confidential board papers from real estate company Lendlease to support bids for major audit tenders for Westpac, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016042,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016029\/revisions\/1016042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}