Australia asks FBI to help find attacker that stole data from millions of users
The omission matters for two reasons, one of which is that it cast further doubt on Optus's honesty.
The potential for ID fraud had already seen state governments scramble to allow issuance of replacement drivers licenses, and citizen anger as that process proved difficult to arrange. Australia's opposition parties have since called for free replacement passports to be issued to victims of the breach and government response to the incident has become another issue up for debate.that they had deleted the Optus data and withdrawn it from sale.
but has not advised of compensation or whether it will fund new passports or drivers licences. Parent company Singtel has said almost nothing.Australia's population is 26 million so the 10.2 million records lifted from Optus may describe as much as 38 percent of the population. That's vastly more than any previous data breach in Australia, and Optus is comfortably the most prominent brand to have suffered such an incident.