Australian Man Arrested in Alleged Scam of Optus Hack Victims

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!

[shanen]

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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[black3d]

Well, it's not really an ending at all. This isn't the hacker - this is a moron who got a hold of the sample data posted from the leak and thought he could use it to extort people while taking no steps to protect his identity at all. It's really just an aside to the whole saga, not any sort of resolution.

Bank account, really?

[Wolfier]

What happened to Western Union and Bitcoins? This sounds suspicious.

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[black3d]

This was just a random idiot who got a hold of the sample data from the leak and tried to use it to extort people, with no idea what he was doing and no sophistication whatsoever.

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[ls671]

It sure looks like it! Deposit money in "a bank account" ?