More than 200,000 attempts to use stolen identity credentials legitimately were blocked by the federal government’s anti-fraud register in just seven months — a 66 per cent increase since April. The Credential Protection Register was created following the Optus data breach in October 2022 to prevent compromised passports, Medicare cards and driver’s licence data from…

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