Origin Energy says 900,000 customers had their data hacked
We don’t take for granted the trust customers place in Origin and our safeguarding of their information.”AdvertisementOrigin first disclosed the threat of a data breach to customers and the market last week. He was previously technology editor for The Australian newspaper.Connect via X or email.From our partnersAdvertisementAdvertisement
- ▪We don’t take for granted the trust customers place in Origin and our safeguarding of their information.”AdvertisementOrigin first disclosed the threat of a data breach to customers and the market last week.
- ▪He was previously technology editor for The Australian newspaper.Connect via X or email.From our partnersAdvertisementAdvertisement
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 1 hour. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Breaking: Origin Energy believes 900,000 customers' data accessed in breach — ABC News (Australia)
Sydney Morning Herald publishes from Australia and files mainly under world. We currently carry 3,675 of its stories.
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| Original publisher | The Sydney Morning Herald |
| Canonical URL | https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/origin-energy-says-900-000-customers-had-their-data-hacked-20260728-p60j6y.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:43:08 +1000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-28T01:53:16.916Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-28T01:53:16.916Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Qd12iuUI7lUG · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at The Sydney Morning Herald.