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[ad_1] Lawyers for customers hit by a huge hack at Optus filed a complaint with the government’s privacy protection office. Lawyers for customers hit by a huge hack at Australian mobile-phone operator Optus filed a complaint with the government's privacy protection office, kicking off a process that could force the company to compensate those who lost personal data. Law firm Maurice Blackburn said it lodged a formal complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. The firm alleges Optus, which is owned by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., failed to protect the personal information of customers and destroy data it no longer needed. Optus said it will “vigorously defend” the complaint. Optus last month said a security breach exposed the details of 9.8 millio...

[ad_1] Australia could have tough new data protection laws in place this year in an urgent response to a cyberattack that stole from a telecommunications company the personal data of 9.8 million customers, the attorney-general said Thursday.Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the government would make “urgent reforms” to the Privacy Act following the unprecedented hack last week on Optus, Australia's second-largest wireless carrier. Dreyfus said “I think it's possible” for the law to be changed in the four remaining weeks that Parliament is scheduled to sit this year. "I'm going to be looking very hard over the next four weeks at whether or not we can get reforms to the Privacy Act into the Parliament before the end of the year,” Dreyfus told reporters. Parliament ne...

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Hacked Optus Customers Kick Off Legal Hunt for Compensation

Australia flags tough new data protection laws this year