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Revealed: The respectable life of the suspected Medibank hacker
The Australian Financial Review has uncovered more details about the life of Aleksandr Ermakov, the Russian who held the personal medical details of millions of Aussies to ransom.
The Russian hacker accused of stealing the medical records of millions of Australians in the Medibank attack once held a legitimate day job in corporate reputation control. By night, he allegedly turned those skills to extortion, hacking a nation from his modest Moscow apartment.
An investigation has uncovered a decade-long trail of Aleksandr Ermakov’s online activity.
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