Dialogue, Singtel-Owned Digital Consultant Company, Menying Cyber Attack

Dilaog hit a cyber attack. (photo: doc. pixabay)

JAKARTA - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (Sintel) stated on Monday, October 10 that one of its units, Dialog, had a cyberattack that could potentially affect 1,000 employees and former employees and less than 20 clients.

The attack comes weeks after a massive data breach in their other Australian unit, Optus.

Violations in Optus, the second-largest cellular operator in Australia owned by Singtel, late last month, have compromised data of up to 10 million subscribers. The attack also sparked a reshuffle of consumer privacy rules to facilitate the distribution of targeted data between telecommunications companies and banks.

Singtel said Monday that the attack on Dialog, an information technology services consulting firm based in Australia, was first detected on September 10. Singtel shares fell 1.6%, at 03.15 GMT due to the emergence of the report.

The Singapore-based telecommunications company also assured that the Dialogue system was completely independent of the Optus and NCS information technology unit, and that there was no evidence of any connection between the incidents of data breaches in the Dialogue and Optus.

Last week, Dialog realized it was "very small sample" from its data, including some of the employee's personal information, had been published on the dark web.

The retailer acquired Dialog in April for $325 million.