{"id":7161,"date":"2022-09-27T09:37:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T07:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/27\/alleged-optus-hacker-apologises-for-data-breach-and-drops-ransom-threat\/"},"modified":"2022-09-27T09:37:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T07:37:39","slug":"alleged-optus-hacker-apologises-for-data-breach-and-drops-ransom-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/27\/alleged-optus-hacker-apologises-for-data-breach-and-drops-ransom-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Optus hacker apologises for data breach and drops ransom threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online account claims it published records of 10,000 customers and threatened to release more before change of heart<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get Guardian Australia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/sep\/23\/morning-mail-newsletter-best-daily-news-email-guardian-australia-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning email briefing<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An alleged attacker who was seeking a ransom payment from Optus in exchange for millions of customer records published 10,000 records online on Tuesday before retracting the threat and deleting all demands.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday night the alleged attacker uploaded a text file of 10,000 records to a data breach website and promised to leak 10,000 more records each day for the next four days unless Optus paid $1m in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/sep\/27\/alleged-optus-hacker-apologises-for-data-breach-and-drops-ransom-threat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d161821412cbbbe407ec3ff20af4fed4dd70b2b6\/0_349_5568_3341\/master\/5568.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1a10a3b347c3885b8aa94ad053e80b98\" title=\"Alleged Optus hacker apologises for data breach and drops ransom threat\" \/>Online account claims it published records of 10,000 customers and threatened to release more before change of heart<br \/>\nGet Guardian Australia\u2019s morning email briefing or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>An alleged attacker who was seeking a ransom payment from Optus in exchange for millions of customer records published 10,000 records online on Tuesday before retracting the threat and deleting all demands.<br \/>\nOn Monday night the alleged attacker uploaded a text file of 10,000 records to a data breach website and promised to leak 10,000 more records each day for the next four days unless Optus paid $1m in cryptocurrency. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online account claims it published records of 10,000 customers and threatened to release more before change of heart Get Guardian Australia\u2019s morning email briefing or daily news podcast An alleged attacker who was seeking a ransom payment from Optus in exchange for millions of customer records published 10,000 records online on Tuesday before retracting the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/27\/alleged-optus-hacker-apologises-for-data-breach-and-drops-ransom-threat\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alleged Optus hacker apologises for data breach and drops ransom threat<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}