Make sure to report any suspicious activity in your bank account immediately to your financial institution
Look out for any suspicious or unexpected activity across your online accounts, including your telco, bank and utilities accounts.While we are not aware of customers having suffered any harm, we encourage customers to have heightened awareness across their accounts, including looking out for unusual or fraudulent activity and any notifications which seem odd or suspicious.” “Optus has also notified key financial institutions about this matter. Please be assured that we are working hard, and engaging with all the relevant authorities and organisations, to help safeguard our customers as much as possible. “We are very sorry and understand customers will be concerned. Optus has stressed that payment details and account passwords have not been compromised as the telco scrambles to secure the information of millions of its customers.Ī search warrant was executed on Thursday, October 6 when the AFP’s Operation Guardian became aware of a number of text messages that allegedly demanded some Optus customers transfer $2000 to a bank account or private information would be exposed.
Over 9 million people are thought to have been impacted by the major data breach with information such as customers’ names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, and in some instances address details, and ID document numbers such as driver’s licence or passport numbers potentially compromised. Following the recent large-scale data breach that left millions of Optus customers across the country at an increased risk of having their personal information stolen, Australian Federal Police (AFP) have charged a Sydney man for allegedly attempting to misuse the stolen Optus customer data in a text message blackmail scam.
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