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Sydney Man Sentenced for Blackmailing Optus Customers After Data Breach

By Ravie Lakshmanan — February 8th 2023 at 15:00
A Sydney man has been sentenced to an 18-month Community Correction Order (CCO) and 100 hours of community service for attempting to take advantage of the Optus data breach last year to blackmail its customers. The unnamed individual, 19 when arrested in October 2022 and now 20, used the leaked records stolen from the security lapse to orchestrate an SMS-based extortion scheme. The suspect
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19-Year-Old Teen Arrested for Using Leaked Optus Breach Data in SMS Scam

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 6th 2022 at 08:25
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has arrested a 19-year-old teen from Sydney for allegedly attempting to leverage the data leaked following the Optus data breach late last month to extort victims. The suspect is said to have carried out a text message blackmail scam, demanding that the recipients transfer $2,000 to a bank account or risk getting their personal information misused for
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Telstra Telecom Suffers Data Breach Potentially Exposing Employee Information

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 5th 2022 at 12:30
Australia's largest telecommunications company Telstra disclosed that it was the victim of a data breach through a third-party, nearly two weeks after Optus reported a breach of its own. "There has been no breach of Telstra's systems," Narelle Devine, the company's chief information security officer for the Asia Pacific region, said. "And no customer account data was involved." <!--adsense--> It
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Optus Hack Exposes Data of Nearly 2.1 Million Australian Telecom Customers

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 4th 2022 at 07:06
Australian telecom giant Optus on Monday confirmed that nearly 2.1 million of its current and former customers suffered a leak of their personal information and at least one form of identification number as a result of a data breach late last month. The company also said it has engaged the services of Deloitte to conduct an external forensic assessment of the attack to "understand how it
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Hacker Behind Optus Breach Releases 10,200 Customer Records in Extortion Scheme

By Ravie Lakshmanan — September 27th 2022 at 06:14
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) on Monday disclosed it's working to gather "crucial evidence" and that it's collaborating with overseas law enforcement authorities following the hack of telecom provider Optus. "Operation Hurricane has been launched to identify the criminals behind the alleged breach and to help shield Australians from identity fraud," the AFP said in a statement. The
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