They originally said it was a cyber-attack, and it then turned out to be a (not insignificant) software update rollout that went tits up.
They lied, got caught out, she is at the top of the chain, this is what happens.
When did they say it was a cyberattack?
All I can find is their response to the senate 2 weeks later where they mention being worried up until 10pmish when they able to verify it wasn’t.
They had a huge cyberattack last year, so I can’t see anything wrong with them being worried about the risk of that having happened again.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Along with the network failure which left almost half of Australia disconnected, she was at the helm during a major data breach last year.
The chief executive of Optus’s Singaporean parent company thanked her for her hard work during a “challenging period” - pointing out she had improved financial performance despite being appointed at the beginning of the pandemic.
The outage on 8 November left 10 million Australians and thousands of businesses without mobile or internet coverage for over 12 hours.
The failure caused transport delays, cut hospital phone lines, shut down payment systems, and blocked about 200 people from calling emergency services.
Ms Bayer Rosmarin has faced criticism over her response to the incident, including at a Senate hearing on Friday.
Optus had apologised and blamed a sophisticated cyber-attack, but critics disputed that, including the Minister for Cyber Security who said the firm had “effectively left the window open” for data to be stolen.
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There seems to be a lot of anger at Optus over this I feel it’s an extremely complex network in the fact our three telcos have very few outages is somewhat surprising.
Potentially she could have put her media team to better use regarding the lack of information on the day, however I feel it’s a shame for her to step down over this.
