Opinion: No, Optus doesn’t need to keep your sensitive information for so long | Rachael Falk
. All of these breaches had variants of the same thing: data theft, varying degrees of highly personal information and, in many cases, the impact of these breaches could have been minimised.Each time a cyber incident happens, all organisations big and small should sit up and assess whether this could happen to them.What makes the Optus breach possibly more astounding is that it is alleged that a subset have had their.
There are only downsides for customers once this data is leaked or stolen. This turns a customer into a victim that can often be re-victimised in many different ways after the breach. The unrecognised harm is the anxiety such theft causes and the lack of power customers have over their data once it has been stolen. All because they entrusted an organisation with this sensitive data in order to get a service.
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