Posts tagged "Optus data breach"

According to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman's annual report, complaints about Optus rose 29.5% from 15,696 in 2021-22 to 20,323 in 2022-23.

Optus is facing one of the largest class action claims in Australian history, with legal firm Slater and Gordon arguing a data breach that exposed the data of almost 10 million customers breached privacy laws, made users vulnerable to fraud attempts, and caused significant emotional distress.

On Tuesday, the ACCC attended the standing committee for economics for a review of the commission’s 2021 annual report. Here are four key takeaways from the session.

Most businesses would experience catastrophic repercussions in reputation and financial loss if their data was compromised. Here are some fundamentals to keep your data safe. 

There are plenty of secure email client alternatives to the big conglomerates like Google and Microsoft. Here are some of the most popular.

A settlement could well be worth billions, eclipsing the current record of $494 million paid to 10,000 victims of Victoria’s 2009 Black Saturday bushfires.

The alleged Optus hacker originally demanded a US$1 million ransom in Monero cryptocurrency. This is probably why.

The Optus debacle has shone a light on business data storage, but the federal government must also consider its own data collection requirements, John Durie writes.

Millions of Australians are now worrying about their driver’s licences, passport numbers and Medicare numbers ending up in the hands of criminals because Optus hung on to this data for six years.

Not even two weeks have passed since Uber was hacked, and now Optus, one of Australia’s leading telecommunications companies, has suffered a similar, much more public fate. 

Companies must reconsider how they store and retain data and reassess who they use to process it.

Optus is offering customers 'most affected' by last week's data breach a free subscription to credit-monitoring company Equifax Protect. That name should ring a bell.