The chief executive of Optus has maintained that the cyberattack on her telco in September was perpetrated by a skilled cyber criminal and revealed the company lost customers in its immediate aftermath.
At a business summit in Sydney on Wednesday, Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin said the attack was carried out by a motivated individual and crafted specifically for the company.Michael Quelch
Optus and the federal government were at loggerheads at the time over the nature of the attack, with Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil suggesting the attack was a very simple one. “What is of concern for us is how what is quite a basic hack was undertaken on Optus,” she told the ABC last year.Rosmarin said Optus refused to pay a ransom to the hacker and that the initial motive of the attack was likely to be the extraction of data for other scam purposes.
But as experts predict a further escalation in cybercrime this year, Rosmarin said it was not feasible to rule out paying ransoms.
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