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Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on the number of customers impacted by Origin Energy data breach · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Scandal. It's and we haven't even got to the netballers
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  Speaker 2: and your texts yet. Will do that shortly. First, Murray Olds,
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  Speaker 2: Australia correspondent Murray, how are.
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  Speaker 3: You can they? Ryan? Pretty good? Thank you? Pretty good?
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you tell me the fellow's name down to
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  Speaker 3: Victoria for a billion bucks. I couldn't they have all.
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  Speaker 3: He's got the bigger air in a blue suit. Another faceless,
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  Speaker 3: anonymous knob. You know, just pathetic, just pathetic. A minute
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  Speaker 3: ago he looked in the eyesid od'd never challenge you,
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  Speaker 3: but of course, just sender Allen toxic, very much on
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  Speaker 3: the nose. But so do the labor government down there.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe you know, four months out from an election,
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  Speaker 3: and don't forget politicians love winning elections. That surrender are
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  Speaker 3: testicle to win an election. We all know that, and
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  Speaker 3: this guy is up against it because Labor is on
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  Speaker 3: the nose. Twelve years. Governments have a lifespan and they
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  Speaker 3: get smelly after that, and well and truly Labor has
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  Speaker 3: outstayed its welcome in Victoria. Daniel Andrews was hated during COVID.
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  Speaker 3: He gave the hand pass to his deputy to Cinderella,
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  Speaker 3: and she in turn has now been knafed by her deputy.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a procession of unbelievable venal politicians. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's all about, Oh, we're doing it for the voter.
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  Speaker 3: No you're not. No, you're not. We know you're not.
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  Speaker 3: You know that we know you're not. It just depends
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  Speaker 3: how bad the liberal opposition can really be or hasn't
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  Speaker 3: got the time. With four months out, a very you know,
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  Speaker 3: a very good young female leader and she's trying to
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  Speaker 3: make every post winner. She's up against it. But after
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  Speaker 3: twelve years, Labor's on the nose. It wouldn't surprise me
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  Speaker 3: to see Labour getting toubled.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting in Victoria too. Now let's go to Angus Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: So he's the opposition leader and he's what's the story
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  Speaker 2: he's told about as university days?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's look, it's a very good program on ABC Television.
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  Speaker 3: It's called Kitchen Cabinet and a you know, a very
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  Speaker 3: good long standing ABC presenter goes out and goes into
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  Speaker 3: the kitchen of politicians big and small, sits down, has
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  Speaker 3: a meal with them and they just chew the fat.
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  Speaker 3: And this is what has happened with Angus Taylor. And
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  Speaker 3: I haven't seen the show. I've seen some shorts of it,
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  Speaker 3: knowing you wanted to talk about it, and it seems
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  Speaker 3: to me very much it's the soft cell. Now the
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  Speaker 3: process the Federal Liberal Party is going through to try
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  Speaker 3: and promote Angus Taylor. He's you know, he's more than
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  Speaker 3: a blue suit with big hair because Anzik, you know
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  Speaker 3: Angus Taylor. Look, he's not popular. Pauline Hanson is playing
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  Speaker 3: the opposition of a breakover here far ahead of the
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  Speaker 3: coalition of the Pole. So Taylor, in my view, has
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  Speaker 3: probably gone on TV on this kitchen Cabinet show. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he cooks a meal. They have this revealing chat and
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  Speaker 3: what he said on the program was that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was one of the boys back at Unie days
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  Speaker 3: and he was there at Sydney Uni. He just lost
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  Speaker 3: his mother, so he was in a state of turmoil
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  Speaker 3: and he was out for a drink one night, was
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  Speaker 3: in the was on a balcony at the young female
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  Speaker 3: students dorm and he fell off. He'd have a few
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  Speaker 3: drinks and he fell off and he broke his back,
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  Speaker 3: was in hospital for a lot of months, and he
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  Speaker 3: recovered from that and went on to be a Rhodes scholar.
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  Speaker 3: He's no, he's no dummy, but he's just no, he's
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  Speaker 3: not a very good politician in my view. So well
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  Speaker 3: he's not. He mean, honest to god. You just look
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  Speaker 3: at him and you think you're just lying to us.
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  Speaker 3: But maybe I'm too old in cynical right, Well.
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  Speaker 2: No, Maury, the way this segment's going, I'm thinking maybe
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  Speaker 2: this is an element of truth to the latter.
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  Speaker 3: He said he did go a bit wild after he
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  Speaker 3: lost his mum, and he was able to get his
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  Speaker 3: life back on track and he's been a very successful businessman.
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  Speaker 3: And now he's trying to lead an opposition that is
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  Speaker 3: flandering against a pretty strong.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt about that. Hard to be a politician anywhere
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  Speaker 2: in the world at the moment. I think that's part
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  Speaker 2: of the problem too. Hey, a big origin has had
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  Speaker 2: a big data breach.
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  Speaker 3: What was that? How about nine hundred thousand customers They've
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  Speaker 3: got about nudging four and a half five million customers.
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  Speaker 3: Origin Energy one of the big players over here, and
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  Speaker 3: Origin got word about three weeks ago, sort of early July,
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  Speaker 3: that a hacker had got information, had hacked the information
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  Speaker 3: from its database customers past and present, and pretty important
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  Speaker 3: stuff too. Ryan. You've got things like names and addresses, emails,
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  Speaker 3: dates of birth, the history of the bill payments, and
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  Speaker 3: self of the telephone numbers. All of this is absolutely
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  Speaker 3: rolled gold information for people who want to engage an
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  Speaker 3: identity theft. Yet you only need a few points, one
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  Speaker 3: hundred points, and I think it is, and all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden you can get yourself a passport, you get
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  Speaker 3: bank accounts, you can get insurance policies and the like.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a very significant breach nine hundred thousand customers.
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  Speaker 3: At first, Origin thought, oh, this is just a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a joke, until the Australian newspaper over here, the
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  Speaker 3: Murdock Paper, it was sent fifty a block of data
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  Speaker 3: containing the information about fifty customers, and suddenly they realized
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  Speaker 3: it was a hell of a lot more serious. So
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  Speaker 3: where we go from here, I'm not sure. Origin says,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're doing our best to plug any leaks
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  Speaker 3: we might have, but if it's my information that's out there,
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  Speaker 3: I'd be a bit concerned. We don't know who it is,
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  Speaker 3: but we don't know the identity of the hacker either.
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  Speaker 3: But it is a pretty big issue, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: Murray Old's muzzer Out of Australia.
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