'The most affected customers will be receiving direct communications from Optus over the coming days on how to start their subscription at no cost,' the company said.Įquifax suffered its own massive data breach in 2017, with 147 million people in the United States affected.
Optus on Monday announced the 'most affected' customers would be given a 12-month subscription to credit monitoring and identity protection service Equifax Protect. 'Everyone should be a bit cautious about the messages and texts they get sent, if it looks suspicious it probably is,' Ms Carson added. Optus Director of Corporate Affairs Regulatory and Public Affairs Sally Oelerich was left red faced when she told 2GB's Chris Smith all effected Optus customer had been contacted by the telco - only for a woman to ring in and say that wasn't the case 'The AFP will be working hard to explain to the community and businesses how to harden their online security because ultimately it is our job to help protect Australians and our way of life,' she said.
Ms Gough said customers should be more vigilant in monitoring unsolicited texts, emails and phone calls in the wake of the Optus breach. The task force will work with the Australian Signals Directorate, overseas police as well as Optus. 'Criminals, who use pseudonyms and anonymising technology, can't see us but I can tell you that we can see them.' 'We are aware of reports of stolen data being sold on the dark web and that is why the AFP is monitoring the dark web using a range of specialist capabilities,' she said. Operation Hurricane has been established by the AFP to identify the people behind the hack, as well as prevent identity fraud of those affected.Īssistant Commissioner of Cyber Command Justine Gough admitted the investigation into the source of the data breach would be complex. The concerns come as a federal police investigation has been launched into the data breach. 'Optus has around 5.8 million active users, so the rest up to 10 million must be previous customers so why are they keeping the private details of 4.2 million previous users?' he wrote on Twitter. Steven Georgantis, a candidate for the Australian People’s Party called for the government to bring in a new law which would force companies to delete customers' details after three months.
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'If the police need to find out who owns the number they have a name and address and it is not hard to find out their driver's license and passport number.'Īs many as 11million Aussies have potentially had their personal addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, passport details and drivers licences stolen in the Optus cyber attack (stock image) So once you have proven this is Billy Smith, do you really need to keep the passport number and driver's license number?' she said. 'The data that is held should be the bare minimum. The legislation is in place to help assist police investigations, but experts believe the practice is outdated.Ĭybersecurity leader Susan McLean said the current data climate had drastically changed and storing information may no longer be safe. Why aren't they saying how long it took them to discover that?' '(Optus) shut down the system as soon as they discovered the cyber attack. 'This is why the whole concept of a decentralised system is coming in,' he told the Daily Telegraph on Monday. Simon Haddadim, an app developer, said he had been warned his data was part of the leak despite leaving Optus 12 months ago. Millions more people could be exposed in Australia's biggest ever data breach even if they're not customers of Optus
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