Optus is investigating the authenticity of a threat to allegedly sell millions of customers’ personal information online unless the telecommunications company pays $US1 million ($1.53 million) in cryptocurrency to the hackers. | nickbonyhady and bencu...
Authorities are investigating the authenticity of a threat to allegedly sell millions of customers’ personal information online unless telecommunications company Optus pays $US1 million in cryptocurrency to the hackers.
The author of the forum post put up a sample of data, claiming it was stolen from Optus. There are some signs that the data is genuine, but it could have been compiled from other sources, such as previous cyberattacks on other companies. Another possibility is that the post is an attempt to con Optus or a criminal group into paying for false information.spoke to several people, on condition of anonymity, whose data appeared on the sample.
Jeremy Kirk, executive editor at Information Security Media Group, a computer security-focused publisher, said he had attempted to check the veracity of one item of data after he saw an address in the sample file that was close to his home in NSW. He emphasised that it was possible that the data, even if genuine, could have been taken from other sources.
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