“I accept that Optus has got a lot on their plate at the moment I think there should be more initiative displayed by Optus,” he said. On Sunday the government services minister, Bill Shorten, said about 36,900 people had their Medicare card numbers exposed in the breach, but Optus had yet to tell Services Australia which customers were exposed, despite the government requesting the information last week. The company has also alerted those customers who had their Medicare card numbers exposed.
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NSW and ACT residents have been informed that, because their governments use the national document verification service, they only need to replace their licence if the licence number and card number were exposed. Optus said on Sunday that it was working to provide advice to customers in those states as soon as possible. In the past day, Optus has sent text messages or emails to customers who had their driver’s licence numbers taken, in every state and territory bar Victoria and Queensland. Australian Signals Directorate is also working with other telecommunications providers to ensure they do not have similar vulnerabilities. The review would be in addition to the work Optus was undertaking with technical professionals within the federal government to understand how the breach occurred.
Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning “I am committed to rebuilding trust with our customers and this important process will assist those efforts.” This may also help others in the private and public sector where sensitive data is held and risk of cyber-attack exists,” Bayer Rosmarin said.
It will help inform the response to the incident for Optus. “This review will help ensure we understand how it occurred and how we can prevent it from occurring again. This included about 150,000 from passports and 50,000 from Medicare cards. On Monday afternoon, Optus said it had identified that 2.1m customers had one form of ID number exposed in the breach, with 900,000 of those being ID numbers from expired documents. Bayer Rosmarin said Deloitte would undertake a forensic assessment of the breach.
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