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theguardian.com, Thu 09/29:
Optus tells former Virgin Mobile and Gomo customers they could also be part of data breach

Former Virgin Mobile and Gomo customers are the latest to have been informed by Optus that their personal information was exposed in the company’s massive data breach, as an identification repair service reveals it has fielded a month’s worth of complaint calls in three days. Optus customers continue to raise concerns the company is not providing substantial information, beyond the initial letter informing them of the breach. For more information see our Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. IDCare – an organisation that helps people who are dealing with identity theft – has received 11,500 calls from Optus customers in the past three days, which is the amount of calls the organisation would normally receive in a month.

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