Select group of Optus customers should cancel licences and passports immediately, minister says

Optus has written to the 10,200 customers who had their details posted online on Monday following the massive hack of 10m records. Photograph: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images

The 10,200 Optus customers who had their personal records posted online last week in the wake of the telco’s massive data breach should immediately cancel their driver’s licences and passports, the federal government says.

Optus has written to the 10,200 customers exposed last Monday after 10 million Australians had their records stolen from the telco a week earlier.