Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

Unconfirmed reports indicate that it was not sophisticated hackers who hacked this data; rather, the Optus data sharing application programming interface, API, was used to obtain the huge amounts of data using an exploit that has been in place for five years. Minister, is an investigation underway to enforce the provisions of section 13G of the Privacy Act, including penalties? And is the maximum penalty of $660,000 enough for a disgusting example of corporate malfeasance?