31/08/2026
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐
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In July 2026, Origin Energy confirmed a data breach exposing the personal details of around 900,000 customers โ names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, partial payment info. How did it happen? A former employee's user access was never switched off. The IT offboarding process failed.
No sophisticated hack. No zero-day exploit. Just a login that should've been closed the day they left โ sitting there, ready to be used.
๐๐๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐๐๐จ ๐ข๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐จ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช๐ง ๐๐ช๐จ๐๐ฃ๐๐จ๐จ:
โข Offboarding often falls between HR and IT โ everyone assumes someone else closed the loop
โข Old user access is a standing invitation, not just logins to your main systems โ email, shared drives, cloud apps and vendor platforms.
โข Client data, financial records and business systems are exposed the same way, regardless of your size
โข Under the Privacy Act, a breach caused by access you forgot to remove is still on you
๐๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฝ๐ก๐ช๐๐๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐จ ๐ค๐๐๐๐ค๐๐ง๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ฉ:
โข Same-day removal of user access
โข Full access audits
โข Device and MFA recovery handled as standard, not an afterthought
โข Documented offboarding checklist
โข Local support, real humans, Mandurah based, no call centres
Onboarding gets the fanfare. Offboarding is the one that needs the checklist.
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