<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Another Aussie company has been hit by a cybersecurity breach, with more than 1600 customers of telco Dodo and iPrimus being impacted by a data breach of the company's email and mobile services.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The hack, which occurred on Friday, was announced yesterday by Vocus, the parent company of Dodo and iPrimus.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Our initial investigation has revealed unauthorised access to approximately 1600 Dodo email accounts, leading to unauthorised SIM swaps on 34 Dodo Mobile accounts," a spokesperson from Vocus told 9news.com.au.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/missing-woman-perth-michelle-leahy/0116e5c1-8a67-466f-a6c9-cf0d57c6872d" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>'We want you home': Husband of missing mum makes heartbreaking plea</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We have worked with impacted customers to reverse these SIM swaps and we continue to monitor this situation."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Email services were temporarily suspended by the company, the spokesperson said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A website monitoring mobile network and website outages on Saturday showed a spike of impacted Dodo customers, with 30 reports lodged by midday.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/technology/dodo-hack-cybersecurity-breach-australia/497487b3-f60c-4c93-bd11-2f1a6a65e10e" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Vocus said they had restored email services for customers on Sunday morning.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We continue to update our customers through our website and social media channels and will be offering additional support to our customers through IDCare," Vocus said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We are continuing to monitor and have notified authorities of this incident."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The two companies account for 9.2 per cent of the NBN in Australia, making it the fourth largest provider in the country.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/world-news-afghanistan-and-pakistan-have-agreed-to-an-immediate-ceasefire-qatar-says/19cc658b-1d7e-4fd9-ab5a-b97f72b854d1" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Afghanistan and Pakistan agree to an 'immediate ceasefire'</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>An ACCC report in June estimated Dodo and iPrimus had around 804,000 customers in Australia as part of its NBN services.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It is the latest cybersecurity issue to hit an Aussie company; last week </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/qantas-data-breach-salesforce/cc149e0a-3ba5-4235-8c22-1c855e2ade01" rel="" target="_blank" title="Qantas confirmed"><span>Qantas confirmed</span></a><span> the data of up to 5.7 million customers had been exposed on the dark web.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In August, fellow telco </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/internet-provider-iinet-hit-by-cyberattack/5828f977-9e1d-40d3-9a78-44f255e0da29" rel="" target="_blank" title="iiNet"><span>iiNet</span></a><span> admitted the data of around 280,000 customers m,ay have been stolen after a cybersecurity breach in the company's order management system.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Dodo also becomes the latest telco to be hit by scandal, with Optus still reeling from its catastrophic triple zero outage that led to the deaths of three people.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>As a result, </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/optus-outage-millions-of-customers-say-they-would-consider-leaving-telco-after-deadly-outage/08dce10c-a70e-4416-9974-5c51edbef58a" rel="" target="_blank" title=" millions of Optus customers"><span>millions of Optus customers</span></a><span> are now considering leaving the telco, plunging it into further crisis after years of turmoil.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f"><em><strong><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></strong></em></a><em><strong><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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