{"id":799573,"date":"2022-10-05T12:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T12:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/10\/05\/australian-regulator-govt-team-up-over-data-sharing-after-optus-breach\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T12:35:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T12:35:05","slug":"australian-regulator-govt-team-up-over-data-sharing-after-optus-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/10\/05\/australian-regulator-govt-team-up-over-data-sharing-after-optus-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian regulator, govt team up over data sharing after Optus breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian prudential regulator said on Thursday it will collaborate with the government and other regulatory bodies for &#8220;controlled process&#8221; of data sharing between its regulated entities and Singapore Telecommunications&#8217; unit Optus.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes weeks after Optus, the country&#8217;s second-largest mobile operator, faced a massive cyberattack that compromised data of up to 10 million customers.<\/p>\n<p>The cyberattack, which was followed by a data breach in the country&#8217;s largest telecoms firm Telstra Corp Ltd earlier this week, served as a wake-up call for regulators and lawmakers to beef up cyber defences.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Australia proposed an overhaul of consumer privacy rules, including changes that will allow telcos to share government-issued identification documents with banks.<\/p>\n<p>The changes will allow telcos to implement enhanced monitoring for customers affected by data breach, in addition to fraud detection in the broader financial services sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian prudential regulator said on Thursday it will collaborate with the government and other regulatory bodies for &#8220;controlled process&#8221; of data sharing between its regulated entities and Singapore Telecommunications&#8217; unit Optus. The move comes weeks after Optus, the country&#8217;s second-largest mobile operator, faced a massive cyberattack that compromised data of up to 10 million customers. The cyberattack, which was followed by a data breach in the country&#8217;s largest telecoms firm Telstra Corp Ltd earlier this week, served as a wake-up call for regulators and lawmakers to beef up cyber defences. Earlier in the day, Australia proposed an overhaul of consumer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799573","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}