I have accounts/ cards credit and debit at 4 different banks.
I have 4 cell phones at two different Telcos, the two major ones here.
2 new, mrs bambu has one...and 2 old and only used as back up.
On any given day, something might work. People in some of the
fire areas had poor mobile phone service
Telstra, the biggest one, has the largest and most powerful network.
Optus, my other one, was recently hacked big-time (1million current and former customers) by thugs demanding a ransom not to release any more private details, bank accounts, passport nos, driver licence nos, other than those of the10,000 people they had done so already.
Customers are going berserk, totally outraged. Radio hosts, the media, the govt are also angry.
AFP IS investigating. Now joined by the FBI.