27-09-2022, 05:27
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How safe is your data?
What a mess. Hackers (or maybe a single hacker) have got into Optus data here in Australia and stolen the personal details of up to 9.8 million past and present customers.
The stolen data includes full names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses, also passport, driver’s licence and Medicare card numbers. Unfortunately this information can be used for identity theft in such cases as signing up for loans and so on.
Depending on which report is read it is either a sophisticated hack or it is a non-sophisticated hack that some young person could have done. In other words nobody knows. It seems that 10,000 records have already been released and though initially there was a demand for a large sum of money from Optus there has now been an apology from the alleged hacker with a message that no more records will be released. It is all very confusing. It is very worrying for Optus customers.
We are expected to give our personal details when required and hope that these remain confidential and safe….apparently this is not always the case. Makes you stop and think, and maybe hesitate a bit.
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