900,000 customers affected in large cyberattack
Origin Energy, Australia's largest gas and electricity retailer, has confirmed a major data breach affecting approximately 900,000 current and former customers. The company is currently working with authorities and offering identity protection services to those impacted.
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This incident highlights the ongoing vulnerability of critical infrastructure and utility providers to large-scale cyberattacks and data theft.
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Share A A A Australia’s largest electricity and gas retailer has confirmed that the personal information of about 900,000 current and former customers was accessed in a major cybersecurity incident .
Origin Energy chief executive Frank Calabria issued an apology to customers on Tuesday and said the company had begun contacting affected individuals to offer identity protection and cyber support services.
Frank Calabria is the chief executive of Origin Energy. Trevor Collens “At this point in time, we believe the information of approximately 900,000 current and former customers was accessed,” Calabria said.
“To our customers, I am sorry. We don’t take for granted the trust customers place in Origin and our safeguarding of their information.”
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