Alleged Optus hacker’s extraordinary data release backflip
A person claiming to be the Optus hacker has abruptly apologised for the data breach in a new post and backflipped on a threat to release more customer information.
Earlier this morning, an account purporting to be the hacker released the details of 10,000 Optus customers and took to an online forum threatening to continue releasing data daily unless the $1.5 million ransom was met.
Now, in an extraordinary backflip, the user claiming to be the hacker has indicated they won’t release any more personal details.
“Too many eyes. We will not sale (sic) data to anyone. We cant (sic) if we even want to: personally deleted data from drive (only copy),” the user wrote.
“Deepest apology to Optus for this.”
The user also said the ransom money it demanded had not been received, and it was a “mistake to scrape publish (sic) data in the first place”.