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Australians affected by MediSecure hack may never know their personal details have been compromised


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2024-07-19 02:42:07
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Prime minister says ‘very significant cyber event’ still under investigation by federal police and he is ‘not aware’ if he is among the 12.9m victims

The 12.9 million Australians caught up in the hack on electronic prescriptions provider MediSecure may never be told their personal information has been compromised, with the prime minister saying on Friday he wasn’t aware if he was one of the victims.

On Thursday evening, the administrators for MediSecure – which went into administration after the hack – revealed 6.5TB of data had been compromised after a ransomware attack on a database server, which was discovered by the company in April.

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Australians affected by MediSecure hack may never know their personal details have been compromised
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/19/australia-medisecure-hack-details-leaked-passwords-update

Prime minister says ‘very significant cyber event’ still under investigation by federal police and he is ‘not aware’ if he is among the 12.9m victims

The 12.9 million Australians caught up in the hack on electronic prescriptions provider MediSecure may never be told their personal information has been compromised, with the prime minister saying on Friday he wasn’t aware if he was one of the victims.

On Thursday evening, the administrators for MediSecure – which went into administration after the hack – revealed 6.5TB of data had been compromised after a ransomware attack on a database server, which was discovered by the company in April.

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Fri, 19 Jul 2024 02:41:17 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/19/australia-medisecure-hack-details-leaked-passwords-update

Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA


Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Josh Taylor
2024-07-19T02:41:17Z

Source: Guardian
Source Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/19/australia-medisecure-hack-details-leaked-passwords-update


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