The persons believed to be behind the massive Optus hack has backflipped on a threat to release tens of thousands of Australians’ data to the internet. 7NEWS
The account behind the breach had been posting to an online forum, demanding Optus pay them $US1 million in cryptocurrency or data would be released.It vowed to continue releasing data daily unless its ransom was met.
“Sorry too 10,200 Australian whos data was leaked. Australia will see no gain in fraud, this can be monitored. Maybe for 10,200 Australian but rest of population no. Very sorry to you. Deepest apology to Optus for this. Hope all goes well from this.” Earlier, it had said in a statement that it was limited in speaking publicly on the breach as the Australian Federal Police were now investigating.
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