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Cyberattack on prescription service MediSecure affects 13 million Australians

Posted on July 18, 2024 by Dissent

Angus Dalton reports:

Almost 13 million Australians had personal and health-related data stolen in the MediSecure cyberattack earlier this year, making the mass hack one of the largest ever.

The Melbourne-based online prescription service company announced it was the victim of a ransomware data breach in May. A week later, a hacker claiming to possess 6.5 terabytes of data put at least some of the information up for sale on a Russian hacking forum.

Read more at The Age.

The story is even worse than you might imagine, as MediSecure says it cannot afford to figure out whose data was stolen and to notify them.

Category: Breach IncidentsHealth DataMalwareNon-U.S.

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