Data Breach Confirmed After Australian Energy Giant Origin Is Hacked

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A hacker claims to have stolen the information of 2 million Origin Energy customers and is threatening to leak it.

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Eduard Kovacs (@EduardKovacs) is senior managing editor at SecurityWeek. He worked as a high school IT teacher before starting a career in journalism in 2011. Eduard holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial informatics and a master’s degree in computer techniques applied in electrical engineering.

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