The Albanese government is under pressure to outline exactly how it is going to help customers exposed by the Optus data breach – including whether it will provide replacement passports free of charge – after it was revealed the FBI had been called in to help.
Australia’s financial regulator, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (Apra), has separately urged banks to beef up their fraud protections immediately after someone claiming to be behind the cyber-attack posted online they had released 10,000 customer records.
