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Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Christinamio with the

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Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Hackers who stole the personal information of

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Speaker 1: millions of Quantus customers are threatening to release the data

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Speaker 1: on Friday unless the airline's software provider pays a ransom.

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Speaker 1: They've already released samples of the material on the dark

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Speaker 1: web as a warning. The data, including names and addresses

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Speaker 1: but not financial information, was stolen from a Philippines based

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Speaker 1: customer call center in June. A bid by the Palestine

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Speaker 1: Action Group to march from Hyde Park to the Sydney

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Speaker 1: Opera House on Sunday has reached the highest court in

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Speaker 1: New South Wales. They want the Court of Appeals to

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Speaker 1: find Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza and say

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Speaker 1: their case has ramifications for freedom of assembly, but the

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Speaker 1: New South Wales Police say the march, which could attract

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Speaker 1: up to ten thousand people, is a safety hazard and

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be allowed to go ahead. Government officials were oblivious

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Speaker 1: to a catastrophe outage that left at least three people

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Speaker 1: dead for more than a day because Optus sent an

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Speaker 1: alert to the wrong email address. The malfunction occurred after

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Speaker 1: a routine upgrade failed and meant people across South Australia,

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Speaker 1: Western Australia and New South Wales were unable to make

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Speaker 1: triple zero calls for several hours. Government officials told a

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Speaker 1: Senate Estimates hearing on Wednesday that Optus had previously been

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Speaker 1: informed to use an updated email address for alerts. Singaporean

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said Optus's parent company, Singtel, which

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Speaker 1: is headquartered in Singapore, will cooperate fully with an investigation

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Speaker 1: into the deadly outage. Check out those stories live right

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