AustraliaTelstra faced criticism for failing to prioritize addressing known vulnerabilities in its network systems, which led to a major nationwide outage on July 8. The outage impacted approximately 45% of all calls and data sessions on Telstra's mobile network and disrupted emergency services, including hundreds of Triple Zero (000) calls. An independent report by Technology Audit Partners (TAP) identified multiple factors contributing to the incident, including a lack of oversight, the absence of key engineers on mandatory leave, and inadequate monitoring of network alarms outside of business hours. The report highlighted that the outage originated from a faulty power supply replacement that reset a GPS card date to 2006, causing cascading failures across the network. Telstra's CEO acknowledged the report's findings and admitted that the company did not treat its timing system as a high-priority function within its network.
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