Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has called on Australian telecommunication giant Optus to take responsibility for the recent massive data breach and provide free credit monitoring to millions of customers impacted.
She noted that a security breach of this size shouldn’t be expected in a large telco provider and said that it will “result in fines amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars” in other jurisdictions.
O’Neil, who introduced new cyber security protections on Monday, said the government is working with the telco giant, the federal police, the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the competition watchdog and the financial regulator to mitigate the breach’s fallout….