Tennis great Todd Woodbridge targeted by Medibank scam

A popular tennis commentator and Medibank customer said he was targeted by scammers who knew the details of his latest hospital stay.

Todd Woodbridge. Picture: Getty Images

Former tennis champion and sports presenter Todd Woodbridge believes he was targeted by scammers, who knew about his recent hospital stay following the Medibank data breach.

Woodbridge, 51, who had a minor heart attack last month, revealed on Wednesday that “aggressive” scammers tried to swindle him out of a hospital bill he had already paid.

The 16-time grand slam doubles champion is a customer of Medibank.

“Now I had no invoices, no nothing. They knew the hospital I had stayed in. They wanted me to ring back and give them my account number and … pay over the phone,” he told 3AW.

“I think that is the beginning of what we are going to be getting plenty of if you’re a Medibank customer because it’s pretty obvious that my details were all out there and they knew exactly where and what I had been doing with my health and my recovery from my little episode.”

He said his phone started ringing consistently on Wednesday afternoon and the caller left a voicemail.

“(They are) trying to make you think that you haven’t paid something that you needed to, but in my case, I know I’m on top of all that,” he said.