Sydney, May 24 (ANI): Australian telecommunications company Telstra has been hit by a "hacking attack" which has affected over 35,000 customers.
The hacking comes just a week after one of its IT staff told a security conference that the firm was reviewing about how it secured and stored customer information.
The Age quoted a Telstra statement, as saying that the hacking attack occurred on the servers of a third party company that runs Telstra BigPond's GameArena and Games Shop websites.
It said information that may have been obtained "was limited to BigPond Games user names, the email address used to join the site and the encrypted GameArena and Games Shop passwords of up to 35,000 customers".
The company had, therefore, reset the passwords of users of those sites "as a precaution" despite them being encrypted. "We will contact affected customers, with their new password, as soon as possible," the firm confirmed.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner confirmed that Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim was investigating the incident. (ANI)
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