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The personal health information and Medicare numbers of 3.9 million customers has been breached.
Here are the steps millions of worried Medibank customers can take after their data was compromised in a cyber attack.
Australians trusted the company with their most sensitive data. Here’s what you can do if you’re a Medibank or ahm customer.
The major insurance company has revealed that far more customers than first expected have had their personal information stolen in a recent hack.
The cyber attack is expected to cost the insurer, which does not have cyber insurance, between $25m and $35m.
The local sharemarket has retreated from six-week highs on rising inflation to close slightly higher. Medibank shares were hammered after it flagged a cybercrime hit of up to $35m. Coles, Woolworths down on household budget strain. Superloop founder’s $15m selldown.
Not a lot of reassurance for customers of Optus or Medibank Private who have had their personal details stolen.
Labor will expedite its watershed data and privacy laws as an emergency response to the Medibank data breach.
The insurer has deferred premium increases, saying the cyber attack affecting customer data is much wider than it originally thought.
The health insurer has admitted the cyber breach on its network is much bigger than first thought as it ‘unreservedly apologises’ to customers.
Medibank has confirmed another ‘distressing development’ in the company’s cybercrime battle.
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The criminal behind the Medibank data hack bought login credentials to gain access to the network from an online Russian criminal forum.
Australia’s biggest health insurer has apologised to customers after it sent their dead relatives emails warning their personal information may be compromised following a cyber attack.
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A study by the advisory found 69 per cent of companies have suffered a cyber attack in the past five years, compared with 31 per cent in 2021.
Hundreds of people have had their data exposed in a cyber attack on electricity company EnergyAustralia.
A cyber criminal gang that hacked Medibank’s customer database now claims it stole credit card security data as it escalates its ransom demands.
The hackers behind Medibank’s data theft have dramatically risen the stakes in a worrying development for the health insurer’s four million customers.
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As the fallout from the cyber attack on Medibank grows, the Australian Institute of Company Directors is guiding boards on how to shore up their online defences.
A new set of governance principles has been released to help organisations strengthen their cyber security in the wake of the Optus and Medibank Private hacks.
Highly personal medical records have been stolen by the cyber ransomware gang that hacked Medibank’s customer database.
Hackers are holding the private health information of Australians to ransom following a data breach at one of the country’s largest insurance providers.
Clare O’Neil has branded the theft of sensitive health records from Medibank’s cyber attack ‘a dog act’ and warned of ‘irreparable harm’.
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A major Australian company has been issued a ransom demand with fears customer data has been stolen in a cyber attack.
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