Optus faces a multi-million dollar payout after publishing the addresses of 50,000 customers in one of Australia's biggest-ever breaches of privacy.
Maurice Blackburn Lawyers has made a ground-breaking class action complaint against the telecommunications company - and are asking those who believed they may have been affected to contact them.
If successful, the action could see Optus forced to pay at least $40 million - or potentially even more.
Maurice Blackburn Lawyers has launched a massive class action complaint against Optus, which allegedly breached the privacy of its customers last year
Optus faces a multi-million dollar payout to customers who have launched a class action complaint against it over allegations their privacy was breached
The proposed legal action is understood to be the first of its kind against a telco for a breach of privacy.
The data breach was discovered by Optus during a routine audit of 10 million customers in October last year.
Optus told nearly 50,000 customers via a letter that their name, 온라인슬롯 address, mobile and home phone numbers had been wrongly published in the White Pages, run by Sensis, against their wishes.
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About 40,000 of those people were new customers whose details were already breached, according to Optus.
'The majority of the affected customers' details were already listed with Sensis prior to joining Optus,' an Optus spokeswoman said at the time.
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Optus hit with class action complaint for massive privacy breach
por Dina Bacon (2020-05-22)
Maurice Blackburn Lawyers has made a ground-breaking class action complaint against the telecommunications company - and are asking those who believed they may have been affected to contact them.
If successful, the action could see Optus forced to pay at least $40 million - or potentially even more.
Maurice Blackburn Lawyers has launched a massive class action complaint against Optus, which allegedly breached the privacy of its customers last year
Optus faces a multi-million dollar payout to customers who have launched a class action complaint against it over allegations their privacy was breached
The proposed legal action is understood to be the first of its kind against a telco for a breach of privacy.
The data breach was discovered by Optus during a routine audit of 10 million customers in October last year.
Optus told nearly 50,000 customers via a letter that their name, 온라인슬롯 address, mobile and home phone numbers had been wrongly published in the White Pages, run by Sensis, against their wishes.
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About 40,000 of those people were new customers whose details were already breached, according to Optus.
'The majority of the affected customers' details were already listed with Sensis prior to joining Optus,' an Optus spokeswoman said at the time.