By Sameer Manekar (Reuters) - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, the parent of Australian telecoms provider Optus, said on Thursday its planned software update was not the root cause for an outage last week, contradicting Optus' claims earlier this week. More than 10 million

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Thursday it would investigate an outage at telco Optus that cut off internet and phone connections to nearly half of its population, causing widespread chaos and leading some small business customers to

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - For one talkback radio caller, the first sign something was wrong with Australia's second-largest internet provider, Optus, came when her cat's wifi-powered food dispenser failed to serve breakfast at 6:10 a.m. and her pet woke

A woman uses her mobile phone as she walks past in front of an Optus shop in Sydney, Australia, February 8, 2018. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz By Lewis Jackson and Sameer Manekar SYDNEY (Reuters) - More than 100,000 current and former customers have joined

By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) -The Australian government on Sunday levelled its harshest criticism yet against Optus, the second-biggest telecoms company, for a cybersecurity breach that affected the equivalent of 40% of the country's population. The government blamed Optus, owned by Singapore Telecommunications, for