Attorney general Mark Dreyfus has been briefed by the privacy commissioner about hack and is seeking ‘urgent’ meeting with telco Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcast The Australian federal police is investigating after the data of millions of Optus customers exposed during a recent hack was allegedly put up for sale online. On Saturday morning a post appeared on a data market from a user claiming to be in possession of the information obtained from the breach with a demand for $1m in Monero cryptocurrency.

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