The details of 10,000 Optus customers have been released following a massive data breach which affected millions of Australians last week. 7NEWS
Among the information accessed were dates of birth, passport and driver’s licence numbers and addresses.The hackers have warned this would continue each day until an extortion amount of $1.5 million is paid.on Tuesday the hardest part for customers will be understanding if you’ve become a victim.
“Unless you are looking through the dark web and trying to find where this is, you won’t know at all,” he said. “Without speaking on behalf of the organisation... hopefully they will start telling people if they pick it up.” “But it’ll be interesting to see what data they actually release, some of it is more sensitive than others, dates of birth and addresses, things like Medicare numbers and passport numbers by themselves are less sensitive if it comes to identity.”
It comes as Australian law firm Slater and Gordon explores the possibility of a class action lawsuit against the telco.
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