Select group of Optus customers should cancel licences and passports immediately, minister says

Clare O'Neil says Optus has emailed 10,200 customers who had their records posted online after 10 million people affected in larger cyber hack

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The 10,200 Optus customers who had their personal records posted online last week in the wake of the telco's massive data breach should immediately cancel their driver's licences and passports, the federal government says.

Optus has written to the 10,200 customers exposed last Monday after 10 million Australians had their records stolen from the telco a week earlier.

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