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SDxCentral Quick Hits Australian Authorities Investigate Optus BreachOptus announced authorities are investigating an online ransom demand following a data hack that exposed the personal details of as many as 10 million customers. CEO of the Australian mobile-phone company Kelly Bayer Rosmarin said federal police are “all over” a post on an online forum threatening to release the stolen customer data until a $1 million ransom is paid.
The released records include email addresses from the Australian Department of Defense and the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. On Tuesday the same account posted they had deleted the data due to "too many eyes," claimed to be withdrawing their ransom demand, and are "sorry for having already leaked data of 10,200 Australians," according to Reuters.
Reuters also reported the Australian federal government blames Optus for the breach, and has flagged an overhaul of privacy rules and higher fines, suggesting the company had "effectively left the window open" for hackers to steal data.
OQC and Cyxtera Bring Quantum Computing-as-a-Service to Data CentersOxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) and Cyxtera announced they will soon enable access to quantum computing-as-a-service via Cyxtera’s data center campus. The partnership claims theirs will be the world’s first integration of a quantum computer in a colocation data center.
OQC’s quantum computer leveraged in Cyxtera’s U.K. data centers will reduce latency times for quantum algorithms and use cases, according to the OQC announcement.
“For quantum computing to be genuinely accessible and fully realize its potential as a technology, it must seamlessly integrate within a businesses’ current computing and data management infrastructure. At this stage, it simply cannot work in isolation,” CEO Ilana Wisby said.
The majority of quantum computers are accessible as a service via the public cloud, or via a private cloud, the announcement noted. Providing access directly within a data center reduces the "locality and proximity challenges typically associated with the distance between classical applications and the quantum computer."
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