After last week’s news of a huge data breach at Optus, the Albanese Government says it will strengthen cybersecurity laws to better protect telco customers. The cyberattack compromised the personal data of about 9.8 million of Optus’s past/present Aussie customers (and for 2.8 million of those, 100 points of identification were exposed…), raising serious questions about its cybersecurity set-up. In parliament yesterday, Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said “I want to note that the breach is of a nature that we should not expect to see in a large telecommunications provider in this country.” She called on Optus to provide free credit monitoring to impacted customers so they can be alerted if someone’s getting up to some funny business with their personal information – and the company agreed. A class action lawsuit could be saddling up… And official tips on what to do if you’ve been affected are here.