No Optus customer suffered financial harm as a result of the hack on the telecommunications provider, CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin says.
While Optus initially flagged 9.8 million customers could be “potentially impacted” in the September data breach, the details of 10,200 customers were actually exposed publicly, Bayer Rosmarin told the Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney on Wednesday.
“And more importantly, not a single customer has suffered any financial loss or fallen victim to a crime through misuse of this data,” she said.
Most of the customer details in the 20 terabytes of stolen data weren’t particularly sensitive—of the type that people regularly publish on their Facebook pages—but did include driver’s licence numbers that could be combined with other data for use in phishing attacks, she said….