19-Year-Old Teen Arrested for Using Leaked Optus Breach Data in SMS Scam | allinfosecnews.com

Oct. 6, 2022, 8:25 a.m. | noreply@blogger.com (Ravie Lakshmanan)

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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has arrested a 19-year-old teen from Sydney for allegedly attempting to leverage the data leaked following the Optus data breach late last month to extort victims.
The suspect is said to have carried out a text message blackmail scam, demanding that the recipients transfer $2,000 to a bank account or risk getting their personal information misused for

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