How absurd. This kind of thing could happen to anyone.
I hope Adidas cops heaps of negative publicity over its pursuit of this hapless woman.
This sounds absolutely insane! Surely it must be trivial to prove that she had no part in anything. Corporations shouldn’t be able to reach down into peoples lives in this way (she is in a different country and was not represented). what can be done to raise awareness and try to help get the attention of the relevant Minister to advocate to the USA Govt to have this sorted out? This women must be beside herself.
I wonder if the government and ASIC shouldn’t take a closer look at Paypal as well. According to Ms Luke her account was one of 35,000 Paypal accounts breached in an incident last year and criminals used it to process thousands of transactions over a couple of days.
Even if she gets everything overturned eventually (and it seems there’s a strong case for that), the amount of stress and short-term expenses this piles on someone for being a victim of a data breach is absurd. If she’s forced to pay, really Medibank should have to cough up for not protecting their user data.
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