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Teach Optus a lesson’: class actions over cyber hack grow : (Will this hurt it's parent SingTel?)

Sep 28, 2022 – 6.02pm

Optus is staring down a second class action over its mammoth data breach last week, with plaintiff law firm Maurice Blackburn announcing on Wednesday that it was investigating filing a claim against the telco.

It would add to the claim already proposed by Slater + Gordon on Monday, for which the firm has had “unprecedented” response from possible class members, with tens of thousands of current and former Optus

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Optus has agreed to provide free credit monitoring to the millions of customers caught up in its massive data breach, as the home affairs minister flags changes to law to potentially fine companies millions for similar breaches.

The company on Monday said it had informed all customers via email or SMS if they had had their passport or driver’s licence numbers compromised in the breach last week.

The breach affected 9.8 million customers, of whom 2.8 million lost “significant amounts of data”, the home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, told parliament on Monday.

The law firm Slater and Gordon has announced it is investigating launching a possible class action against Optus on behalf of customers. The firm’s class actions senior associate, Ben Zocco, said the breach was “potentially the most serious privacy breach in Australian history”.

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Government calls for Optus to pay for new passports if Australians' data breached

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Must make it very costly

Lost an arm and a leg isn't enough

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Sue Optus for $10 billion to teach the telco sector a lesson.

Amount must be big enough to have an impact.

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Nobody is more evil that u in Sgtalk.

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Sue Optus for $10 billion to teach the telco sector a lesson.

Amount must be big enough to have an impact.

T-5 costs $10b