ACMA’s proceedings in opposition to Optus
On 20 Could 2024, ACMA filed proceedings within the Federal Court docket in opposition to Optus alleging that throughout the data breach between 17 to twenty September 2022, Optus failed to guard the confidentiality of its clients’ private info from unauthorised interference or unauthorised entry as required underneath the Telecommunications (Interception and Entry) Act 1979.
The breach noticed the data of 9.5 million former and present Optus clients accessed. Of these, 3.6 million had been lively cellular subscribers, and it’s in relation to those clients that ACMA seeks penalties for the contraventions.
The cyberattack led to the personally identifiable info of roughly 10,200 Optus clients being revealed on the darkish internet. Of Optus lively subscribers, greater than 3.1 million had their bodily tackle accessed and greater than 2.4 million had identification info corresponding to passport, driver’s licence and Medicare numbers accessed.
