Purported Optus hacker releases 10,000 records including email addresses from defence and prime minister’s office

Purported Optus hacker releases 10,000 records including email addresses from defence and prime minister’s office

Optus CEO says federal police are ‘all over’ post with ultimatum demanding $1m within four days after massive data breach

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The chief executive of Optus, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, says federal police are “all over” a post on an online forum which purported to have released 10,000 customer records from the recent data breach and threatened to release more until a $1m ransom is paid.

The post was later deleted, along with a claim the writer had deleted the data and would not sell it to anyone.

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