Teen Scammer Involved in Optus Cyber Breach Avoids Jail

General view of an Optus store in Sydney, Australia, on Sept. 22, 2022. AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi

A 20-year-old man has evaded a potentially decade-long jail sentence after trying to scam $2000 from Optus customers affected by its September data breach.

Dennis Su, who was 19 at the time, pleaded guilty in November to texting 92 Optus customers and demanding they transfer $2000 to a Commonwealth Bank bank account “or face their personal information being used for financial crimes.”