This story was initially circulated two days ago with a blanket statement of “AUS Home Affairs confirms the breach” - which at the time was false because they only acknowledged the rumour.
Whether or not it’s a rumour based on speculation has nothing to do with it. It either is or it isn’t.
> The Department of Home Affairs said it is aware of a cyber incident impacting Ticketmaster customers in response to claims it is part of a data leak expected to impact millions of customers globally.
How exactly "being aware" counts as "confirmation" in this case?
Any other article (outside of those who used ABC Aus as a source) on this matter have specifically used words like "allegedly", "purported", etc.
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aucyberseccoord_today-i-was-a...