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‘Simply Not Sufficient’: The Govt Has Slammed Optus For Being Slack Not Cooperating With It

The federal government has criticised Optus following the massive cyberattack that compromised millions of Australians’ data. During a press conference on Sunday, Minister for Cyber Security Clare O’Neil and Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten
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slammed the telco for its slackness in handing over vital info to authorities. “It is crucial that everyone who has been affected by this breach is properly notified,” O’Neil told reporters as per . “We would like Optus to be transparent about the number of people who have had specific identity documents compromised, and that information has not yet been provided. “I would like Optus in particular to make sure that the 10,200 whose data has already been made available briefly online, know that [the breach] has occurred. “Optus has advised that they have told those people… an email is simply not sufficient under these circumstances.” “We are going to need to go through a process of directly speaking with those 10,200 individuals and Optus needs to take up the mantle here. “We should not be in the position that we’re in, but Optus has put us here.” Shorten denounced Optus’ “damage control” tactics. “Now is not a time to listen to the lawyers and the damage control merchants,” he said as per . “The people really in pain are not the Optus executives. The people in pain are the 10 million people who’ve had their privacy breached. “I acknowledge that they had a full-page newspaper ad in the paper on the weekend, but an ad is not a strategy. That is not a plan.” This comment was in reference to the enormous ads Optus took out in . “We know Optus is trying to do what it can, but having said that, it is not enough,” Shorten continued. “We don’t need this [information] tomorrow or the next day, we needed it days ago. We seek Optus to step up its communication and transparency with government.” If you’re an Optus customer and you’re freaking out about potentially being hacked, . And zooming out for a hot second, there is one question that still looms large: where is Optus Managing Director  in all of this? Read our .
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