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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Natasha May and Josh Taylor

Purported Optus hacker releases 10,000 records including email addresses from defence and prime minister’s office

The chief executive of Optus, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, says federal police are “all over” a post on an online forum which purported to have released 10,000 customer records from the recent data breach and threatened to release more until a $1m ransom is paid.

The post was later deleted, along with a claim the writer had deleted the data and would not sell it to anyone.

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