The Australian Financial Review wrote an article providing a behind the scenes look at how the Optus data breach unfolded for the company and their CEO. This was the first of a number of major data breaches which eventually lead to changes to the Australian Privacy Act, and it saw the maximum penalty for serious or repeated privacy breaches increase from $2.2 million to $50 million. The article is a very interesting read and provides a different perspective on the beach. It also points out that what the public, media and government assume was an easy task of identifying what data was stolen was in reality a monstrous undertaking.
https://www.afr.com/technology/inside-the-optus-hack-that-woke-up-australia-20221123-p5c0lm
This segment was created for the It’s 5:05 podcast