
Australian Man Arrested in Alleged Scam of Optus Hack Victims (bloomberg.com) 6
The Australian Federal Police have arrested a 19-year-old Sydney man for allegedly trying to blackmail victims of a giant data breach at mobile-phone company Optus. From a report: The man allegedly texted 93 people who were affected by last month's hack of the Australian telecommunications provider, demanding they transfer A$2,000 ($1,300) to a bank account or face having their personal information be used for financial crimes, the AFP said in a statement Thursday. At this stage it appears none of the people who received the text message transferred money to the account, the AFP said.
Happy ending! (Score:2)
But no one on Slashdot has anything to say about it.
Don't look at me. I'm not actually interested in the story, either, except for wondering why it's so uninteresting. Is this some kind of recursive implosion of lack of interest?
(But it does remind me of a Swedish mystery by Nesser...)
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Bank account, really? (Score:2)
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It sure looks like it! Deposit money in "a bank account" ?