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The company also said it wanted to clarify media reports about potential fines or other costs relating to the incident.By Andrew Penn JanuWe’ve all witnessed the confronting scenes of bushfires around the country, and awed at the heroic volunteers battling the blazes. In a statement to the Singapore stock exchange on Monday, Optus owner Singtel said it had not received any legal notice of a class action but any such move would be 'vigorously defended'.

The survey comes after Optus's parent company advised it had engaged lawyers in case it was subject to any class action over the hack, which involved the personal details of more than 10 million customers being compromised. Guardian Essential poll results published on Tuesday found just over half of respondents supported tighter restrictions on the amount of information companies could collect on consumers.Īn overwhelming majority of the 1050 respondents also said they were worried about scammers stealing their identity to set up bank accounts, despite only 21 per cent saying they were directly affected by the Optus breach. It comes as a majority of Australians would back a move to strengthen privacy protections in the wake of the massive data breach. He called for the telco to be more forthcoming with information. Mr Shorten said Optus had revised its estimates to 50,000 compromised Medicare records and 150,000 passports.

to get the information so I can stop hackers from hacking into government data and further compromising people's privacy.' 'What it's about is the horse has bolted. 'We shouldn't have to play hide and seek and wait to day 13 to get material,' he told reporters in Canberra. Labor frontbencher Bill Shorten confirmed the government agency had received the data on Tuesday and was assessing it to see what could be drawn from it. Meanwhile, Optus has finally handed over data to Services Australia almost a fortnight after a massive data breach was revealed. 'The relevant authorities have been notified, we've let current employees know, and while the data is of minimal risk to former employees, we will attempt to notify them too.' 'No customer account information was included, we believe it's been made available now in an attempt to profit from the Optus breach,' the spokesman said on Tuesday. The breach does not involve any customers.

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