The Optus Breach
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On Thursday Australia’s second-largest telecoms company, Optus, announced it had suffered a major data breach that had compromised sensitive customer information.
Updated 2022-09-27 11:20 AM: To date, records of 10,200 individuals have been published online (the 10,000 records today and 200 records published earlier). While the purported attackers have since apparently promised that they have deleted their only copy of the data and will not release any further data online, there is no evidence yet to prove this claim (and indeed it is almost impossible to prove).
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