This past week, we have all heard about Optus and their breach of security.  I'll be honest and say I was very surrised to hear of this and concerned. The information that has been released in the data breach includes:

your name date of birth phone numbers email addresses, residential addresses, and identity document numbers. For example, driver’s licence, Medicare or passport numbers are all information that are used to identify you.

Further information here - More Info  Telstra said on Tuesday it had suffered what it called a small data breach also. A Telstra internal staff email reportedly put the number of affected current and former employees at 30,000.  The data that was taken was "very basic in nature", limited to names and email addresses, a company spokesperson sa...