Optus tells customers affected by data breach they can no longer use passports as online ID

Original article by Tory Shepherd
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 18-Oct-22

Sydney Optus customer Daniel Reeders says he is angry that the telco did not tell customers whose passports were exposed under its recent data breach that it would ask the federal government to block those numbers from the national Document Verification System. Reeders does not drive so his passport number is his main means of identification, and he was one of over 100,000 Optus customers who had their passport numbers exposed by the hack; he had been told that he did not need to begin the process of getting a new one, prior to learning what Optus had asked the government to do.

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