Clare O’Neil says penalties for telcos are ‘totally inappropriate’ and data breach was ‘significant error’
The home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, says she will be looking at new cybersecurity laws to prevent similar breaches. The Optus attack has affected up to 10 million customers including 2.8 million people who had their licence or passport number leaked.
“I really hope this reform task is something we can work on collaboratively across the parliament,” she said. She also suggested the government was looking at ways to ensure the passport and licence details of the 2.8 million affected customers could be flagged to provide additional protection against identity theft.
“One of the great disappointments for me as cybersecurity minister is that … a telecommunications company left open a vulnerability of this size.
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