Personal details of nearly 10 million Optus customers are leaked in one of Australia's biggest cyber

"Personal details of nearly 10 million Optus customers are leaked in one of Australia's biggest cyber attacks...

Hackers stole 2.8 million customers' passport and drivers licence numbers, email and home addresses, dates of birth and telephone numbers after reportedly exploiting a weakness in the company's firewall.

The remaining seven million had their dates of birth, email addresses and phone numbers stolen...

Both past and present Optus customers have been impacted..."

[Optus is the second-largest wireless carrier in Australia]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...sing-millions-customers-personal-details.html

 

That should encourage them now more than ever the seriousness of it and to really buckle down hard now to seal in and contain their system where it can't be so easily pry'd into.

 

Thank heavens I'm not one of them.

 

Me, too.

 

Email from cyber.gov.au.

 

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil says Optus ‘left the window open’ for cyber criminals to conduct simple hack

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09...-blames-optus-for-cyber-attack-hack/101474636

 

"Huge twist in Optus data breach as mysterious hacker now says SORRY and DELETES the trove of data they stole - as they claim 'regret' for hacking the telco: 'Ransom not paid... but we don't care'...

The mysterious hacker purporting to be behind the Optus data breach has suddenly apologised for the cyber-attack - after releasing the details of some 10,000 customers.

In a bizarre post on Tuesday morning, 'optushacker' claimed there were 'too many eyes' on them and said they would not sell or leak the hacked data of up to 10 million Australians.

In broken English, optushacker said: 'Deepest apology to Optus for this. Hope all goes well from this'.
The hacker also claimed they would've told the telco about their vulnerability but there was no way of getting in touch with them...

The extraordinary backflip comes hours after the cybercriminal threatened to release another 10,000 records every day for the next four days if a $1.5million ransom was not paid..."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...er-apologises-telco-claims-not-sell-data.html