Biggly genius.
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So a weird one - I just got a small transfer into my bank account tagged as “Unclaimed Money Refund”. I’m straight away thinking a scam of some kind but cant really think of anything that makes sense for an inbound bank transfer. Only thing I had my banked linked to (as far as I’m ware) is paypal so I logged on and killed that - there was no trace of any activity there.
I’ll duck down the bank tomorrow and question it… but it’s an odd one.
Anyone seen something like that before?
Sounds suspect to me. When you say “small transfer”, how small? (A few cents, or a few bucks?)
If someone has your account number, they could be testing it with a very small transaction.
I don’t whether there’s some kind scam where they can setup a direct debit using your account, but I think you’re wise to hit the bank tomorrow and query it.
Good luck, hope nothing bad comes of it.
It wasn’t a funds transfer that you did where the money was unclaimed? Usually happens when the account number you’re transferring to is incorrectly transposed/copied…
It was under 20 bucks. Nothing springs to mind as to where it might have been returned from and the description doesnt give any clues.
Yeah this was what I was thinking. If it was through paypal I’d suspect some kind of dodgy chargeback/refund scam but but the only money I’ve sent via paypal recently was to a local dictator! In any case I removed my bank account link from there just in case.
Wow - watching the T20 WC final and saw the Optus advert about the attack.
Absolutely hilarious
Are you with Commonwealth?
I got one the other day and it was the balance that was remaining on my Travel Money Card. The card had recently expired and apparently there was still money on it.
I had completely forgot about it, I can’t remember the last time I even saw the card and there was no obvious link to the account from my NetBank. They sent me an email explaining it and it looks legit. I didn’t click on any links, not that the email asked me to in any case.
Fuck that’s spot on man. Email got buried in spam but it’s there when I went digging. Should have found that before. I really need to refine my notifications and what not. That puts the mind at east - cheers!
I got that card in like 2011 and haven’t thought about it since.
Pissed off LastPass were so Optussy in their management of this. Sure I’m probably not the target of the hackers who are likely after juicy Bitcoin wallets, but fuck their lack of clear communication and the risk presented.
Going to look into a migration to bitwarden now
Yeah every company goes into preservation mode and wants to give away as little information as possible. With a company like Optus that’s one thing but when it’s a security mob surely it will make people and organisations way more wary of ever going back there?
That’s where I’m at. The bitwarden migration took less than 20 minutes in total and it’s cheaper and more secure according to analysis.
If they were more upfront I wouldn’t look to move.
The mass-migration from using passwords to using passkeys can’t come soon enough.
Thanks for the nudge though, I do need to look at options to get my family off LastPass.
Passcodes are just a scheme for Apple and Google to further entrench their platform lock-in.
bUt ItS aN oPeN sTaNdARd!
aaaaaand another one.
Drives me crazy that none of the talk I’ve seen from government and industry types as been about retaining less PII. All I’ve seen is talk about the government & police having more access to information so they can act after the fact.
Can you retain less PII in these specific cases? They’re essentially lending agencies, so you’d assume they’d need detailed information on anyone that they’re lending to.
The whole IT systems though is way behind the times. NATA has only just (in the last two months) started checking IT systems for major medical laboratories, including system protections etc. They’ve never actually known what to do and have only had the first technical assessors signed up very very recently. They’re still writing manuals and figuring out what they need to check
Dunno if it’s a cyber attack, but the Optus network going down today is huge.
Not been the greatest 12 months for them.
An infrastructure failure on Gladys’s watch? 