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.

There is no confirmation that it isn’t.

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Just to provide receipts:

Home Affairs Department confirms cyber incident impacting Ticketmaster customers (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-29/ticketmaster-hack-all...) - May 29th

> 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.

That's the only argument I am making.