TELSTRA has scrambled to reconnect its BigPond internet services
after a privacy breach that leaked personal customer information shut
down its system for 24 hours.Up to 1 million BigPond users could not use email and other online services while the problem was being fixed.
About 60,000 passwords were reset after they, and/or user names, were inadvertently displayed on the internet.
A Telstra official, Karina Keisler, said the cause was not known, and a full investigation was under way. She said Telstra was made aware of the breach on Friday afternoon and shut down the system within the hour.
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