UK telecoms providers facing tougher cybersecurity regulations
The global telecommunications industry has seen its fair share of serious cybersecurity breaches in recent years. In late September 2022, for example, Optus, a major telecoms provider in Australia, revealed that the personal data of 10 million customers had been stolen by cybercriminals. The loss of data on this scale is, sadly, becoming more routine, but what puts it into perspective is that the Optus incident equates to about 40% of the population of Australia.