[HN Gopher] Australia gov wants telco Optus to pay for new passp...
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       Australia gov wants telco Optus to pay for new passports for data
       breach victims
        
       Author : kiwih
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2022-09-28 19:31 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.rnz.co.nz)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.rnz.co.nz)
        
       | kiwih wrote:
       | > Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has asked Optus to cover
       | passport application fees for anyone caught up in last week's
       | massive data breach, which affected millions of Australians.
       | 
       | I wonder if this is actually intended to be an "ask", or if this
       | is polite language for "we will legally compel them to".
       | 
       | >Passport numbers are among the personal details accessed in what
       | the federal government has described as a "basic hack".
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       | >Optus says the data breach was due to a "sophisticated"
       | operation.
       | 
       | It would be good to know more details of the hack itself.
        
         | grecy wrote:
         | Why does a phone company store a customer's passport number?
        
           | anakaine wrote:
           | And why is it stored in clear text. And why was it exposed to
           | a regular API. And why was real data being used on a dev API.
           | And why wasn't that API secured at all?
           | 
           | These are all really good questions.
        
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