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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Josh Taylor

Optus loses court bid to keep report into cause of 2022 cyber-attack secret

Pedestrians walk past an Optus store
Optus unsuccessfully argued in court that the dominant purpose of the report was to assess the legal risk to the company over the hack of customer information. Photograph: David Gray/AFP/Getty Images

Optus has lost a bid in the federal court to keep secret a report on the cause of the 2022 cyber-attack – which resulted in the personal information of about 10 million customers being exposed – after a judge rejected the telco’s legal privilege claim.

After the hack, the company announced in October last year that it had recruited consultancy firm Deloitte to conduct a forensic assessment of what had led to the cyber-attack.

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