Weekly Update 514: This Week in Data Breaches
Summary
Troy Hunt discusses the Origin Energy data breach in Australia, including the multi-faceted response from the company and hacker, and the ongoing risk of data leaks.
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# Weekly Update 514: This Week in Data Breaches
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The Origin Energy breach down here in Aus is all over the news this week, and as with many breaches, it's multi\-faceted\. You've got them leading with "don't worry, your credit card is fine", the hacker leading with "they didn't respond when I tried to report it", and now news that the two parties have "come to an agreement"\. Maybe money was paid, or maybe Origin made some promises to restrain the hounds if commitments about data deletion were made\. But both outcomes, of course, provide no guarantee that data has been nuked, so now they get to spend perpetuity waiting for the data that maybe \- just maybe \- it leaks\. And we all should be working on precisely that assumption, just like we did with Optus and Medibank and Latitude and Ticketek and Qantas\.\.\.
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## References
1. [**Sponsored by:**CoreView: Misconfigurations in Microsoft 365 leave doors open\. Scan your tenant for free\.](https://www.coreview.com/free-tool/tenant-security-scanner?utm_source=MVP_Troy_Hunt&utm_medium=blog&utm_term=July19)
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