Hackers they threatened to make public the medical data which they stole from about a thousand famous Australians. The hack involved a total of 200GB of data, according to the hackers, Medibank, one of Australia’s largest private health insurers, said.
“The criminal provided a sample of data he intercepted for 100 files,” the insurer said in a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange.
“The alleged data includes; the place where the client received medical care, as well as codes related to their diagnosis and procedures» he adds.
The private insurer had announced it would suspend pricing of its securities until details of the wiretapping emerged on Wednesday morning.
The hackers threatened to leak or sell the datastarting from 1,000 very famous personalitiesunless Medibank paid a ransom.
The personal information of approximately 9 million Australians, i.e. almost a third of the country’s population, as reminded by APE-MPE, leaked last month following a hack targeting Optus, him second largest mobile operator in the country.
The hack at that company was one of the biggest data breaches in Australian history.
Home Secretary Claire O’Neill said today that cyber security can no longer be taken for granted.
“Combined with Optus, this sends a huge wake-up call to the country,” he told ABC radio. “We live in a new world. We will be constantly receiving cyber attacks, especially from now on,” he added.
Source: News Beast
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