Optus: How a massive data breach has exposed Australia

Summary

Tiffanie Turnbull writing for BBC News, makes the following points:

• Payment details and account passwords were not compromised, but almost 37,000 Medicare cards were.
• Roughly 2.8 million people - are at a "quite significant" risk of identity theft and fraud.
• The hacker claims a freely accessible software interface enabled the hack (Optus says it was sophisticated).
• Some countries have fines of hundreds of millions of dollars-capped at about $2m here.
• Data retention laws could be amended to reduce the time required to keep records.

References

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References from the Web:

• OCT 2022 Optus Hack Exposes Data of Nearly 2.1 Million Australian Telecom Customers-the Hacker News
• OCT 2022 Services Australia starts data matching Medicare details for Optus hack victims-the Mandarin

Source Information:   

• Article Source: BBC - Homepage
• Media Check: Media Bias/Fact Check (mediabiasfactcheck.com)/ BBC News
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