About 900,000 Origin Energy customers affected by hack as company admits it was warned weeks before public told

Per The Guardian, Origin Energy—Australia's largest energy retailer—is dealing with a data breach affecting about nine hundred thousand current and former customers. The company has admitted it was warned of the hack three weeks before publicly disclosing the breach. Chief executive Frank Calabria apologized and advised customers to watch for suspicious activity amid heightened scam risk.

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