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Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the government has been "working around the clock" to ensure "unwilling victims" of the Optus data breach can be protected.

"We do expect Optus to do whatever they can to protect their customers and to provide the necessary support. I think we've made that clear in recent days," Mr Chalmers said in his press conference today.

"Since Saturday, when I spoke to the Governor of the Reserve Bank, the Chair of APRA and CEO of one of the Big Four banks, we've made sure that we have been working closely with the financial system and with the regulators.

Mr Chalmers said the Treasury convened a meeting of several of the banks and Australian Banking Association, the Customer-owned Banking Association, APRA, ACCC and the Australian Financial Crimes Exchange to "better understand" any options and considerations.

"One of the big focuses of these discussions … is the safe and secure sharing of data between Optus and regulated financial institutions, with the appropriate safeguards, to allow those institutions to undertake enhanced monitoring for the purposes of best protecting their consumers from any bad behaviour following this data breach."