Cyber breaches show companies are playing data roulette
You could be forgiven for thinking Australia was suddenly under cyber assault, but the reality is that it has been this way for ages, with firms gambling that their customers won’t be the next exposed.
Thanks to the widespread public and political anger that followed the data breach at Optus last month, the cat is well and truly out of the bag that consumers have been putting misplaced trust in companies to protect their personal data.
Online wine seller Vinomofo is the latest Australian company to lose customer data to crooks online.
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