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 ...

Companies had been told "a number of times" the email address was not to be used for notifications, a departmental staffer said. Optus is facing continued scrutiny from the government in a Senate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Optus sent government notice of its deadly triple-0 outage to the wrong email address. Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short The ...

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. The telco's ...

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 ...

It’s taken almost seven weeks for Optus to finally come clean about what really happened in the wee hours of Thursday, September 18, when its network manager, Finnish conglomerate Nokia, started ...