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It appears to be raining data breaches at properties belonging to Singapore's multinational telecommunications conglomerate Singtel, with the telco announcing on Monday that there had been an intrusion into its Australia-based IT services provider Dialog.

Data stolen from Singapore's multinational telecommunications conglomerate Singtel on 20 January last year, during an attack through a file-sharing system from Accellion that was close to end-of-life at the time, has surfaced on a forum on the clear Web. Singtel owns the Australian telco Optus which recently suffered a massive data breach.

Singapore telco Singtel is collaborating with Intel to establish a 5G Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) incubator aimed at enabling enterprises to adopt 5G seamlessly, deploy applications that need low latency processing at the edge, drive innovation and accelerate their digital transformation.

NCS, a subsidiary of Singtel Group, announced that its digital arm, Next, has recorded a 5x increase in headcount since 2019, posting a 2,000-strong team of digital specialists across 18 specialisations in Asia Pacific—half of them based in Australia.

Singapore telco Singtel plans to invest a further US$100 million into Singtel Innov8, its corporate venture arm, raising its total capital commitment to US$350 million.

Hardware security key provider Yubico has appointed Selina Goh to the role of ASEAN regional sales director, Derix Suartyo to the role of ASEAN solutions engineering lead. They are both based in Singapore.

Australian telco Singtel Optus has reported that some of its mobile customers are unable to make voice calls since shortly after 8am on Tuesday.

According to research from Venture Insights in its white paper to commemorate the 30th birthday of Australia’s challenger telco, Australians continue to benefit from lower prices, better service and more innovation with the introduction of Optus as a telecommunication competitor.

The Singapore Infocomm Media Authority (IMDA), the Singapore equivalent of the ACMA, announced the results of its 2.1 GHz spectrum auction.

Pension fund company AustralianSuper has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Australia Tower Network (ATN).

Optus’ parent company Singtel has entered into an agreement to sell a 70% stake in Australia Tower Network (ATN), a wholly-owned subsidiary which operates Optus’ passive telecommunications tower infrastructure, to AustralianSuper.

COMPANY NEWS by Singtel:  As remote work continues to be a norm in Singapore, the ability to keep connected with employees and customers anytime and anywhere have become a must have for businesses. With this in mind, Singtel is to the first operator based in Singapore to offer the Unified Communications (UC) Direct Connect service for Microsoft Teams, giving businesses the option to use Microsoft Teams as a key mode of communication by integrating their business contact to their Microsoft Teams. Its functionality integrates with Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams that was launched by Microsoft today.

Qualcomm announced at the Mobile World Congress that a contingent of mobile communications companies announced their collective support for 5G mmWave technology globally – including key players from a growing number of regions including China, Europe, Japan, Korea, North America and South East Asia.

Brands, publishers, and agencies based in Australia and New Zealand will now have access to digital advertising insights to study how their competitors spend ads. Pathmatics also revealed that the top ad spenders in the region are Proctor & Gamble, Hungry Jack’s, SingTel, and Optus.

Telco Singtel Optus has teamed up with global security provider McAfee to offer its users a solution called Optus WiFi Secure to protect devices connected to a home or business modem/router.

Oil and gas giant Shell has fallen victim to a network attack, with the breach being through vulnerabilities in Accellion's File Transfer Appliance product. Data belonging to its stakeholders and subsidiaries has been compromised.

Security firm Qualys has become the latest to be affected by a breach of a file transfer system manufactured by the firm Accellion, the company says.

Telco Singtel Optus is experiencing issues with its network, with some customers, both residential and businesses, affected.

Singapore's multinational telecommunications conglomerate Singtel has been breached by an attack on a file-sharing system from Accellion that is nearing its end-of-life, with the breach ocurring on 20 January, the telco says.

Telco Singtel Optus has launched an all-in-one home Internet package which it claims will satisfy the needs of a typical Australian home.