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Luckily (buried at the bottom of their announcement), at least for the moment sim swaps, ports, etc are in-person, in-store with physical ID only.

My main concern is that, with ID, it becomes possible to do a Sim swap or number port, which would be the start of a heap of nightmares. Luckily, buried at the bottom of Optus' announcement, they mention that (for the moment) those can now only be done in person, in-store, with physical ID.

For the other stuff (address, name, DoB)...what are the things nearly everyone asks when you ring to make account changes, to verify you are you..

I'd be careful with the home address too (although you should be ok). I moved around a bit a few years ago, and lost track of where I'd updated my address. It was usually as simple as 'I think my most recent address with you is X, can you please update it to Y', and as long as the other stuff checked out, no questions were asked.

And yeah, I had to laugh about that press release :/

Still no email this side. No news is good news, right?

Ah man, I'm sorry to hear that. No emails here yet, but not to say I'm not in the category one down yet (which is only slightly less bad).

I'm starting to worry about the general public's understanding of the ramifications of this. When it first broke, I was pretty upset, and my partner (well educated, and with me long enough to understand some things about breaches) thought my concerns and anger at optus was excessive. It's only after I explained to her in some detail a few scenarios of what could happen with the information, that she asked questions about what we should be doing.

I think we'll be seeing fallout from this for years to come.

Based on one newer article I've seen, leaked data dates back to 2017, so...

No idea how accurate this is just yet though.

They claim to have started notifying people today (Saturday), with customers with most amount of info leaked being prioritised. Supposedly if you've had ID information stolen, you'll know today. Fingers crossed.

All it takes to register a new number here, are your details including name, DoB, physical address (all the complete ones leaked), the type of ID used (passport, drivers license) and the number on that ID. You can do it in about 5 minutes online, and the number is then active (but not before).

Not even a copy of the document is required, and it doesn't have to be sighted by anyone. From memory, you don't even have to supply the expiry date on the document (and driver's license numbers remain static).

One of the first things I see happening, is criminals using this to obtain burner numbers not traceable to them.

This just twigged something for me - there is now enough information available to easily do number ports, giving someone else control of the number used for MFA. Anything that relies on your number to verify account actions, transactions, etc is now at risk.

And why, oh why, are past customers in there. I'm a current one, but even 'not being with them' doesn't necessarily exclude you from this.

Unless you park uphill/downhill, and leave it in first as an added safety measure with the parking brake...

The count... Seriously though, like another poster said, repetition is key. They eventually develop context around it as well.