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‘We know who you are’: AFP targets Russian Medibank hackers

Ayesha de Kretser, Andrew Tillett, Ronald Mizen and John Davidson

Updated Nov 11, 2022 – 8.07pm, first published at 4.48pm

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The Australian Federal Police has identified the individual criminals responsible for stealing and releasing Medibank patient data and says they are part of a loose group of Russian hackers who have conducted numerous cyberattacks across several countries.

As the sensitive details of hundreds more Medibank patients were released on Friday – this time people with alcohol-related diagnoses – and threats of more to come, Commissioner Reece Kershaw said the AFP was working with Russian law enforcement authorities through Interpol.

Ayesha de Kretser is a senior reporter with The Australian Financial Review covering the aviation and tourism sectors. She has previously reported on banking, mining and commodity markets.

Andrew Tillett writes on politics, foreign affairs, defence and security from the Canberra press gallery.

Ronald Mizen is the Financial Review’s political correspondent, reporting from the press gallery at Parliament House, Canberra.

John Davidson is an award-winning columnist, reviewer, and senior writer based in Sydney and in the Digital Life Laboratories, from where he writes about personal technology.