When Will Optus Data Security Breach Leaked?
Optus revealed its huge data breach on Thursday, 22nd September 2022, the customers of this firm got emails notifying them that their personal data and information got leaked and was being accessed. The telco gives some relief to the customers who are getting worried after hearing this and worried about the privacy of their passwords and financial information. The company states that no financial details or passwords were accessed. The data which got leaked included information such as the names of the customers, email addresses, dates of birth, addresses linked with their accounts, phone numbers and information on identification documents such as the passport number and the license numbers of drivers.
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However, the telco did not disclose how many of its users residing in Australia were in danger of a breach. On Monday, 26th September 2022, Claire O’Neill, Home Secretary informed parliament that approximately 9.8 million individuals were badly affected, more than 2.7 million of whom held “considerable amounts of data” has been lost/ Those whose data has been leaked must be thinking about what to do next. Guardian Australia has given some suggestions from experts. The executive director of digital forensics and incident, Nick Klein stated that “Those who are affected with this need to relax and not to get panic. The simple thing which they can do at this time that just to change everything right now before someone miss use it.
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Nick suggests that the customers of Optus need to use strong and tough passwords and for all online accounts used multi-factor authentication, particularly for significant accounts such as email and banking. As per the reports, Toby Murray who is the associate professor of cybersecurity and giving her teachings or services at the Univerisity of Melbourne was also the victim of the same issue and her data has been leaked. She suggested to other affected customers that the first step in order to prevent fraud, she asked people to directly call them and asks them to create additional verification methods for their accounts.
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