{"id":1668159,"date":"2022-10-01T23:50:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T03:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1668159"},"modified":"2022-10-01T23:50:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T03:50:39","slug":"australian-government-slams-optus-for-cybersecurity-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australian-government-slams-optus-for-cybersecurity-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian government slams Optus for cybersecurity breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faustralian-government-slams-optus-for-cybersecurity-breach%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1668159&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>MELBOURNE (Reuters) \u2013     The Australian government on Sunday levelled its harshest criticism yet against Optus, the second-biggest telecoms company, for a cybersecurity breach that affected the equivalent of 40% of the country\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>The government blamed Optus, owned by Singapore Telecommunications, for the breach, which affected 10 million accounts, urging the company to speed up its notification to 10,200 customers whose personal information was released in one of the country\u2019s biggest cybersecurity breaches.    <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe should not be in the position that we\u2019re in, but Optus has put us here,\u201d Home Affairs Minister Clare O\u2019Neil told a televised news conference from Melbourne. \u201cIt\u2019s really important now that Australians take as many precautions as they can to protect themselves against financial crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Optus had no immediate comment on the government\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>The company ran a full-page apology in major Australian newspapers on Saturday for the \u201cdevastating\u201d breach that it first reported on Sept. 22. An unidentified person later posted online that they had released personal details of 10,000 Optus customers and would keep doing so daily until they received $1 million.       <\/p>\n<p>Australian police\u2019s operation to find the person or people behind the breach at Optus is \u201cprogressing well\u201d, O\u2019Neil said, adding that police would provide an update this week.<\/p>\n<p>However she said Optus needed to step up its efforts to call, not just email, people whose identification data was released online to let them know they are at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Saying now was \u201ca time for real vigilance for Australians\u201d, O\u2019Neil urged those who had been notified to cancel their passports or other identification cards and get fresh identification documents as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Five days after being requested, Optus had not handed over information to the government about customers who had provided their Medicare health care cards or other social services information for identification purposes for Optus accounts, said Government Services Minister Bill Shorten.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call upon Optus to understand that this breach has introduced systemic problems for 10 million Australians in terms of their personal identification,\u201d he told reporters at the joint media conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that Optus is trying to do what it can, but having said that, it\u2019s not enough,\u201d Shorten said. \u201cIt\u2019s now a matter of protecting Australians\u2019 privacy from criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neil said Australia needs to reform its cybersecurity laws to give the government stronger powers to respond to cyber security emergency incidents.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Sonali Paul; Editing by William Mallard)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/australian-government-slams-optus\/attachment\/file-photo-a-woman-uses-her-mobile-phone-as-she-6\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9100T-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9100T-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE (Reuters) \u2013 The Australian government on Sunday levelled its harshest criticism yet against Optus, the second-biggest telecoms company, for a cybersecurity breach that affected the equivalent of 40% of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}