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doedel
A wild guess: that ABC Radio interview probably said "... we had multiple layers of protection", not "players".
JTC
The Government is probably aware of the scale of the hack, because... they carried it out :-)
Rodney
Five Eyes, cough.
Fighto!
So - the Australian government has to hack a private companies' database to obtain drivers license numbers, passport numbers, names and dates of birth?
Conspiracy theories and theorists are laughable - but yours takes the cake!
Desert Tortoise
The Australian government needs to rescind rules requiring people provide such personally identifiable information to obtain a phone number. That is the crux of the problem because it makes a phone company's database such an attractive target.