Canberra: Extortionists dumped stolen client records relating to pregnancy terminations on the dark web on Thursday in their latest effort to pressure Australia’s largest health insurer to pay a ransom. The cybercriminals began dumping customer records on Wednesday including treatments for HIV and drug addiction after Medibank this week ruled out paying a ransom for … Read more
Canberra: Medibank client data was published by an extortionist Wednesday, including details of individuals’ medical procedures, after Australia’s largest health insurer refused to pay a ransom for the personal records of almost 10 million current and former customers. The release of information on the dark web appeared to be a sample of the data that … Read more
Australian Clinical Labs said on Thursday its Medlab Pathology business suffered a data breach that affected health records and credit card information of about 223,000 patients and staff. This is the latest in a series of hacks to rock corporate Australia, after the country’s biggest health insurer Medibank and No. 2 telco Optus were also … Read more
Canberra: Australia‘s largest health insurer said on Wednesday a cybercriminal had hacked the personal data of all its 4 million customers, as the government introduced legislation that would increase penalties for companies that fail to protect clients’ private information. Medibank said “significant amounts of health claims data” had also been accessed in the breach, which … Read more
Canberra: Australia‘s largest health insurer said on Wednesday a cybercriminal had hacked the personal data of all its 4 million customers, as the government introduced legislation that would increase penalties for companies that fail to protect clients’ private information. Medibank said “significant amounts of health claims data” had also been accessed in the breach, which … Read more
Australia: Medibank Private Ltd said on Thursday a criminal had proved it had the personal and medical information of 100 of the health insurer’s customers, and the company warned that even more customers could be affected. The criminal claims to have 200 gigabytes of data — including customer names, contact details, Medicare and policy numbers … Read more
Australia: Medibank Private Ltd said on Wednesday an unnamed hacker group had contacted it negotiate about customer data it claimed to have retrieved from the health insurer’s IT systems. The news comes six days after Medibank reported an attempted ransomware attack on its network, but said there was no evidence that customer data had been … Read more