It has been two weeks since news broke of the Optus data breach, perhaps the largest ever in Australia, hitting nearly 10 million current and former customers of the country’s second-biggest telco.
Whether caused by technical oversight, human error, common criminals – or a “sophisticated attack” as claimed by Optus (and disputed by most) – there is no doubt this has felt like the longest two weeks in the lives of those who are in the thick of it at Optus.
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Alastair MacGibbon is Chief Strategy Officer at CyberCX and was National Cyber Security Adviser, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Cyber Security, Head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre, and Australia's e-Safety Commissioner.
