Australian telco Optus, which has suffered a massive cyberattack, has repeatedly opposed changes to privacy laws to give customers more rights over their data (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)

Alice Uribe / Wall Street Journal:
Australian telecom Optus suffers a cyberattack, potentially giving the hacker access to data on up to 9.8M customers, per the CEO; the police are investigating  —  Australian telecoms company says mass breach could have exposed birth dates, phone numbers and other personal data

Angus Whitley / Bloomberg:
As the Optus hacker appears to release data of 10,000 customers, Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin says the Australian police are investigating a ransom demand  —  Australian mobile-phone company Optus said authorities are investigating an online ransom demand following a major data hack …

Renju Jose / Reuters:
Australia proposes changes to its consumer privacy rules post the Optus hack, enabling telcos to share IDs with banks for better monitoring during data breaches  —  Australia on Thursday proposed an overhaul of consumer privacy rules that will help facilitate targeted data sharing between …

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: to cut costs by 10%+ in a few months, Meta is nudging out a significant number of staff by reorganizing and giving a window to apply for other roles  —  Facebook parent is looking to reduce costs by at least 10%, people familiar with the plans said, while Google has required some employees to apply for new jobs

Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times:
A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state’s campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined  —  Meta, Facebook’s parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

Reuters:
Australia’s biggest health insurer Medibank says an October 2022 hack compromised personal and “significant amounts” of health claims data of its ~4M customers  —  Medibank Private Ltd (MPL.AX), Australia’s biggest health insurer, said on Wednesday a cyber hack had compromised …