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5 days ago · A statement of claim attached to mandatory court filings reveals that the ACMA will frame the Optus data breach as a case of negligence, asserting that the company failed to address an access control coding error that it had known about for some years.
20 hours ago · The Optus data breach has already cost the company some amount of money, a good deal of that paid out voluntarily. It has already reimbursed 20,000 current and former customers that had enough personal information exposed that they needed to change some sort of national identification number, and it has compensated some government agencies as well.
5 days ago · The Optus data breach was one of the largest in Australia’s history, exposing personal information for about 10 million customers (over a third of the country’s total population). 2022 Optus data breach still hangs over company’s head, penalties could be heavy.
4 days ago · The latest insights into the API breach at Optus and CocoaPods vulnerabilities reveal severe risks from the software supply chain. We examine the importance of API input validation for blocking DoS and authentication attacks.
3 days ago · The three judges rejected the appeal by Optus against a decision ruling a forensic report, commissioned in the wake of the 2022 data breach, was not covered by LPP. This judgment provides very useful guidance on how to prove a dominant legal purpose.
1 day ago · The Deloitte Report was commissioned by Optus in response to the aftermath of its September 2022 cyber-attack data breach, which saw approximately 9.5 million customers’ private information ...
4 days ago · The data breach at Australian telco Optus, which saw over nine million customers' personal information exposed, has been blamed on a coding error that broke API access controls, and was left in place for years.
