Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at the Sydney Energy Forum in Sydney, Australia July 12, 2022.
Brook Mitchell/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia plans to change privacy rules, allowing banks to be alerted faster to cyber attacks on companies, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday, after hackers targeted the country's second-largest telecoms firm.
Albanese called the incident "a huge wake-up call" for the corporate sector, saying there were some state actors and criminal groups who wanted to access people's data.
"In other jurisdictions, a data breach of this size would result in fines amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars."
Optus has alerted customers whose driving licence or passport numbers were stolen, a company spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
Payment details and account passwords were not compromised, it added.
Source: Investing.com
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