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Australia covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to Australia, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
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Crims accessed 10 million customer records and are releasing intimate medical details The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has pointed to Russia as the location of the attackers who breached local health insurer Medibank, accessed almost ten million customer records, and in recent days dumped some customer data onto the dark web.…
Australian health insurance giant Medibank has warned customers that the ransomware group behind last month's breach has started to leak data stolen from its systems. [...]
A ransomware gang that some believe is a relaunch of REvil and others track as BlogXX has claimed responsibility for last month's ransomware attack against Australian health insurance provider Medibank Private Limited. [...]
Australian health insurer Medibank today confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 million of its current and former customers were accessed following a ransomware incident
Australia's Medibank uses a government-approved Band-Aid to cover a gaping 10-milion-record wound Australian health insurer Medibank – which spent October discovering a security incident was worse than it first thought – has announced it will not pay a ransom to attackers that made off with personal info describing nearly ten million customers.…