in brief Optus has blamed a spam attack on an email outage that occurred between late Wednesday and Thursday morning. "We did have some issues on Wednesday evening and our engineers rebooted the email ...

Optus sent emails notifying the federal communications department about a deadly triple-zero outage to the wrong email address, leaving authorities in the dark for more than a day.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Optus sent two emails to an incorrect address at the Department of Communications, alerting it of the Triple Zero outage on September 18 ...

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) head Nerida O’Loughlin said the regulator was first alerted of an outage impacting 10 calls and that it had been resolved about 2.40pm on ...

Optus' emails also underplayed the severity of the 18 September outage, parliament heard One of Australia's biggest telecommunication companies sent emails about a deadly outage to the wrong email ...

The communications regulator and Department of Communications have given conflicting accounts of when they were first alerted to the fatal Optus outage that resulted in four deaths and when the telco ...