Great: Turns Out 10,000s Of Folks Who’ve Never Even Used Optus Have Had Their Data Breached Too

Well isn’t this a lovely TGI F-you this morning: two more Australian telecommunications companies owned by Optus have warned tens of thousands of current and former customers their personal information could have been exposed in last week’s data breach. Great. Optus has confirmed former customers of Virgin Mobile, which shutdown in 2018, and current and former Gomo customers’ data was stolen along with 10 million Optus customers’ details. The data included names, dates of birth, contact information and identification information including driver’s licence and passport numbers. Both mobile companies were purchased by Optus as wholly owned subsidiaries. Optus also resells its mobile services to other external companies including Dodo, Amaysim, Circles.Life and iiNet. Amaysim said on Thursday its customers were not caught up in the data breach, but we don’t yet know what’s happened to the other customers’ data.

The Australian Information Commissioner announced she would probe Optus’ compliance with data breach requirements.