The Optus hack: How 10 million people got pwned
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Why Do Teler Communications Companies Collect So Much Information?
The primary blame has to rest with the attackers, but also with obdus itself. In this case, it was a simple vulnerability. This was not a sophisticated attack. And this kind of vulnerability that the attack as exploited is really inexcusable. It just shouldn't exist in these kinds of publicly facing systems. There aren't enough incentives in place in the current regulatory regime to actually place the owners on companies like optas to make sure that their systems are secure. We might expect to see similar incidents again in the future.
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