澳大利亚罚款南方电话250万美元, Australia fines Southern Phone $2.5M for failing to stop mobile scams, causing $393K in losses.

南方电话有限公司因未能保护客户免受移动欺诈而被澳大利亚ACMA罚款250万美元,这是澳大利亚允许的最高额。 Southern Phone Company Limited has been fined $2.5 million, the maximum allowed, by Australia’s ACMA for failing to protect customers from mobile fraud. 在2024年7月至2025年2月期间,电话公司违反了反抢劫法168次,使诈骗者能够劫持手机号码并进入银行账户,给20名客户造成至少393 000美元的损失。 Between July 2024 and February 2025, the telco violated anti-scam laws 168 times, enabling scammers to hijack mobile numbers and access bank accounts, causing at least $393,000 in losses for 20 customers. 一年多来,安全漏洞一直未被察觉。 The security flaws went undetected for over a year. 最高刑罚是ACMA对此类违法行为的处罚。 The penalty is the highest ever issued by ACMA for such breaches. 南部电话现在必须进行一次独立审查,定期进行安全测试,并向监管者报告。 Southern Phone must now conduct an independent review, perform regular security tests, and report to regulators. 这是今年第三次针对电信公司号码移植漏洞的执法行动, This is the third enforcement action this year targeting telco number porting vulnerabilities, highlighting a persistent scam threat. 据国家反恐怖中心称,在2025年前九个月中,澳大利亚人因诈骗损失了近2.6亿美元。 Australians lost nearly $260 million to scams in the first nine months of 2025, according to the National Anti-Scam Centre.