Among the information accessed were dates of birth, passport and driver’s licence numbers and addresses.The hackers have warned this would continue each day until an extortion amount of $1.5 million is paid.on Tuesday the hardest part for customers will be understanding if you’ve become a victim.
“Unless you are looking through the dark web and trying to find where this is, you won’t know at all,” he said. “Without speaking on behalf of the organisation... hopefully they will start telling people if they pick it up.” “But it’ll be interesting to see what data they actually release, some of it is more sensitive than others, dates of birth and addresses, things like Medicare numbers and passport numbers by themselves are less sensitive if it comes to identity.”
It comes as Australian law firm Slater and Gordon explores the possibility of a class action lawsuit against the telco.
Hope Optus compensate and rectify the situation on customers affected.
Optus, what is next? Are we still safe?
sue the sh.. out of Optus class action needed
All Optus customers should receive the free credit protection, not just a select few. Pathetic from optus
Optus owe the clients
Still dont get the $1.5mil bit. A billion I'd get. 🤷♀️
We must thoroughly investigate Russia and China in particular! Only they can do such a thing AlboMP
Al of a sudden.. your name could be a doing stuff you would NEVER EVER do . I would do dee pol .. and change your self before someone else does ! Massive threat to a person's self -- identity.
Who are you ! This breach will make people loose their identity 🙄 😒 And who ..will compensate for that .
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