Over 100,000 former and current Optus customers affected by a massive data breach in 2022 have taken court action against the Australian telco giant.
On April 21, law firm Slater and Gordon announced that it had launched a class action lawsuit on behalf of Optus customers whose personal information was compromised when a group of foreign criminals hacked into the company’s database in September 2022.
The company accused Optus of breaching privacy, telecommunication and consumer laws by failing to protect customers’ personal information from unauthorised access.
Slater and Gordon also claimed that Optus did not destroy or de-identify former customers’ personal information and failed to ensure that customers’ personal information could only be accessed by people with authority….