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Optus: Optus hack is the new norm

Optus: Optus hack is the new norm

Optus: Optus hack is the new norm
Sep 25, 2022 1 min, 15 secs

Every organisation and citizen has a responsibility to address their own cyber security.

The revelation this week that Optus had been the victim of a large-scale data breach perpetrated by a sophisticated cyber threat should be a massive wake-up call for Australia.

The breach exposed the personal information of over nine million Optus customers dating back to 2017, with the names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, and in some cases home address, passport and driver’s licence numbers stolen.

Recent Commonwealth government legislation relating to the security of critical national infrastructure is a positive step forward, but it is hardly a silver bullet that assures our national cyber security.

There can no longer be any doubting that, nor the sustained probability of a large-scale cyber attack against our critical national infrastructure.

Similarly, as everyday Australians continue to freely give away their personal information with the knowledge that the security of that information cannot be guaranteed, it is also important for them to consider how they might respond if their personal information is stolen by cyber criminals.

That makes us all vulnerable, particularly when sophisticated cyber threat actors are becoming more adept at cyber attacks against organisations and individuals.

However, the experts at the Australian Cyber Security Centre can’t, and shouldn’t, be expected to do everything.

Every Australian organisation and citizen has a responsibility to address their own cyber security, and the more astute leaders in the Australian economy have already recognised this and commenced the development of their own capabilities.

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